7 occurrences

'Peg' in the Bible

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

She reached for a tent peg,her right hand, for a workman’s mallet.Then she hammered Sisera—she crushed his head;she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s house.

Verse ConceptsThroneNailsPegsProtecting Your Family

On that day”—the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

Verse ConceptsPegs

The cornerstone will come from Judah.The tent peg will come from themand also the battle bow and every ruler.Together

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

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