Mills and Millstones

Millstones Scripture - Luke 17:2

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....

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Millstones Scripture - 2 Samuel 11:21

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....

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Millstones Scripture - Revelation 18:21

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all....

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Millstones Scripture - Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge....

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Millstones Scripture - Judges 9:53

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull....

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Millstones Scripture - Job 41:24

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]....

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Millstones Scripture - Matthew 18:6

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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Millstones Scripture - Mark 9:42

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....

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Mills in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The mills of the ancient Hebrews probably differed but little from those at present in use in the East. These consist of two circular stones, each about eighteen inches or two feet in diameter, the lower of which is fixed, and has its upper surface slightly convex, fitting into a corresponding concavity in the upper stone. In the latter is a ...

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Millstones Scripture - Revelation 18:22

And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;...

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