Deuteronomy 24:6 KJV
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Words Then and Now
- nether lower Still heard today: the Netherlands, the low lands Webster’s 1828 · Nether
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Matthew Henry
- Of new-married persons, Of man-stealers, Of pledgesIt is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another....
Thompson Chains
- MillstonesStarts here · next Judges 9:53 · 5 links
- PledgesLink 2 of 4 · next Job 22:6
Cross References
- Deuteronomy 20:19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
- Genesis 44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
- Exodus 22:26–27 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: …
- Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
- 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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Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Hebrew and Strong’s
- No man shall take לֹא lōʾ Negative יַחֲבֹל yaḥăbōl חָבַל Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- the nether רֵחַיִם rēḥayim רֵחֶה Noun · masculine dual
- or the upper millstone וָרָכֶב wārākeb רֶכֶב Noun · masculine singular · with and
- to pledge חֹבֵל ḥōbēl חָבַל Verb · qal active participle, masculine singular
- for he taketh הוּא hûʾ Pronoun · third person masculine singular חָבַל châbal
- life כִּי kî Conjunction נֶפֶשׁ nepeš נֶפֶשׁ Noun · masculine or feminine singular
- to pledge חָבַל châbal
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