Mills and Millstones

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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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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Mills Scripture - Exodus 11:5

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....

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Mills and Millstones in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mil, mil'-ston (recheh; mulos, mulon): The two most primitive methods of grinding grain were (1) by pounding it in a mortar, and (2) by rubbing it between two stones. In Nu 11:8 both methods are mentioned as used for rendering the manna more fit for cooking. Numerous examples of both mill and mortar have been found in ancient excavations. Blis...

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