Topic
Millstone
6 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 24:6Nave Not to be taken as a pledge
¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
- Judges 9:53Nave Abimelech killed by one being of hurled upon him
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- Job 41:24Nave Figurative of a hard heart
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
- Matthew 18:6Nave Probably used in executions by drowning
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.
- Mark 9:42Nave Probably used in executions by drowning
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
- Luke 17:2Nave Probably used in executions by drowning
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
mil'-ston.
See MILL.
In the topical indexes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); 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.