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542. Adze (#98077)
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Manners and Customs of the Bible
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James M. Freeman
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Jeremiah 10:3
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For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (Jeremiah 10:3)
. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
“Ax” is thought to have been a light kind of hewing instrument, similar to an adze, used for fashioning or carving wood into shape. It is rendered “tongs” in
Isaiah 44:12
12
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. (Isaiah 44:12)
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