1. Ecclesiastes 10:10
If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.
2. Jeremiah 51:20-23
He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; and with you, I shatter nations, and with you, I destroy kingdoms. “With you, I shatter the horse and his rider, and with you, I shatter the chariot and its rider, and with you, I shatter man and woman, and with you, I shatter old man and youth, and with you, I shatter young man and virgin…
3. Judges 9:48
So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise.”
4. 1 Chronicles 20:3
He brought out the people who were in it and cut them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
5. Isaiah 10:15
Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club wielding those who lift it, or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.
6. 1 Samuel 13:21
The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the ploughshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes.
7. 2 Samuel 12:31
He also brought out the people who were in it, set them under saws, sharp iron instruments, and iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
8. Psalm 74:6
And now all its carved work they smash with hatchet and hammers.
9. Jeremiah 46:22
“Its sound moves along like a serpent; for they move on like an army and come to her as woodcutters with axes.
10. Ezekiel 26:9
The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his axes, he will break down your towers.
11. 1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his ploughshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.
12. Matthew 3:10
The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
13. Psalm 35:3
Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me; say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
14. Psalm 74:5-6
It seems as if one had lifted up his axe in a forest of trees. And now all its carved work they smash with hatchet and hammers.
15. 2 Kings 6:5
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”
