Hammer
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Hammer in the Bible Dictionary
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General scriptures concerning
1 Kgs 6:7; Isa 41:7; Jer 10:4
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings 6:77 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 41:74 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Jeremiah 10:4 -
Figurative
Jer 23:29; 50:23
29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 23:2923 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:23
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.