Axe wisdom from the Bible

[jaybo1943]

I read this today in the Bible (Ecclesiastes 10:10)...

If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.

Good advice from 3,000 years ago!

 

[Steve Tall]

Loose axe heads were a potential problem back then:

As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...

Deuteronomy 19:5

 

[the possum]

Loose axe heads were a potential problem back then:

Yep. But a prophet is handy to have around:

And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5 But as one was felling a log, his iron axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.” 6 Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float. 7 And he said, “Pick it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.

From 2 Kings, chapter 6

 

[Frotier76]

Or there's always the expression from the King James version of the bible

Jeremiah 51:20

Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

 

[deltaboy]

Oh you found my text for my Sermon Fishing for Iron. 2 Kings CH 6 vs 1-7.

 

[Steve Tall]

Interesting that two out of the four Bible quotes have to do with loose axe heads flying off the handle.

 

[300Six]

Interesting that two out of the four Bible quotes have to do with loose axe heads flying off the handle.

Perhaps that's where the expression "fly off the handle" (euphemism for uncontrolled anger) comes from. And I thought most of us were wood thumpers, not Bible thumpers