Topic
Mills
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Exodus 11:5Torrey Antiquity of
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
- Numbers 11:8Torrey USED FOR GRINDING — Manna in the wilderness
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Deuteronomy 24:6Torrey STONES USED IN — Not to be taken in pledge
¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
- Judges 9:53Torrey STONES USED IN — Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- Judges 16:24Torrey Male captives often employed at
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
- 2 Samuel 11:21Torrey STONES USED IN — Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- Job 41:24Torrey STONES USED IN — Hard
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- Isaiah 47:1Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Grinding at,) of degradation
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 47:2Torrey USED FOR GRINDING — Corn
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
- Jeremiah 25:10Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Ceasing,) of desolation
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
- Lamentations 5:13Torrey Male captives often employed at
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
- Matthew 18:6Torrey STONES USED IN — Heavy
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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- Matthew 24:41 Torrey Female servants usually employed at
- Revelation 18:21 Torrey STONES USED IN — Large
- Revelation 18:22 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Ceasing,) of desolation
In the topical indexes
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.