Topic
Ax
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 19:5Nave An implement
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities,…
- 1 Samuel 13:20Nave An implement
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
- 1 Samuel 13:21Nave An implement
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
- 2 Samuel 12:31Nave An implement
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the…
- 2 Kings 6:5Nave Elisha causes to swim
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
- 2 Kings 6:6Nave Elisha causes to swim
And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
- Psalms 74:5Nave An implement
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- Psalms 74:6Nave An implement
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
- Jeremiah 46:22Nave FIGURATIVE
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
- Jeremiah 51:20Nave FIGURATIVE
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- Ezekiel 26:9Nave Battle-ax
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
- Matthew 3:10Nave FIGURATIVE
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.