4482 millstones

Pairs of upper and lower millstones were used for grinding grain in the ancient East. Millstones were common features of the daily life of ordinary people.

Millstones as a means of earning a living

Dt 24:6 See also Isa 47:1-2; Jer 25:10; Rev 18:22

Millstones were heavy and burdensome

Mt 18:6 pp Mk 9:42 pp Lk 17:2

Millstones as potential weapons

Jdg 9:50-53 See also 2Sa 11:21

Millstones in figurative use

Job 41:24

Millstones as symbols of destructive force

Rev 18:21

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