11 Bible Verses about Grinding Food

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Job 31:10

Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened,

Numbers 11:8

The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.

Judges 16:21

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:

Lamentations 5:13

The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

Zephaniah 1:11

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are cut down, all they that are laden with silver are cut off.

Luke 17:35

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

Revelation 18:22

and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,

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