Nave’s Topical Bible
Millstone
6 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Not to be taken as a pledge
- Probably used in executions by drowning
- Abimelech killed by one being of hurled upon him
- Figurative of a hard heart
Bible verses about “Millstone”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
- Matthew 18:6But 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.
- Mark 9:42And 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.
- Luke 17:2It 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.
- Judges 9:53And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.
- Job 41:24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.