Millstone
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Not to be taken as a pledge
Deut 24:6
6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:6 -
Probably used in executions by drowning
Matt 18:6; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2
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.
Matthew 18:642 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.
Mark 9:422 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.
Luke 17:2 -
Abimelech killed by one being of hurled upon him
Judg 9:53
53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Judges 9:53 -
Figurative of a hard heart
Job 41:24
24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Job 41:24
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
