DID YOU KNOW…
That an agricultural instrument was also a weapon of war?
Part of Beit Avraham's collection consists of threshing boards, like the ones used in Bible times. The sharp stones, later combined with steel, embedded underneath the wooden sledge, chop up the grain stalks.
Another version was the threshing wagon. It consisted of 3 axles and a number of steel disks that not only were used to thresh grain, but also as an instrument of torture.
In Amos 1:3 we read, "...[the king of Syria] threshed the people of Gilead with the sharp iron teeth of threshing wagons."
Proverbs 20:26 says, "A wise king sifts out the wicked, and brings the threshing wheel over them."
The threshing board begins the separating, cleaning and refining process of the grain harvest. From it came food that nourishes and blesses.
Compiled by Jim and Maxine Carlill.
Picture taken by: Petra van der Zande. Neot Kedumim , Israel.
That an agricultural instrument was also a weapon of war?
Part of Beit Avraham's collection consists of threshing boards, like the ones used in Bible times. The sharp stones, later combined with steel, embedded underneath the wooden sledge, chop up the grain stalks.
Another version was the threshing wagon. It consisted of 3 axles and a number of steel disks that not only were used to thresh grain, but also as an instrument of torture.
In Amos 1:3 we read, "...[the king of Syria] threshed the people of Gilead with the sharp iron teeth of threshing wagons."
Proverbs 20:26 says, "A wise king sifts out the wicked, and brings the threshing wheel over them."
The threshing board begins the separating, cleaning and refining process of the grain harvest. From it came food that nourishes and blesses.
Compiled by Jim and Maxine Carlill.
Picture taken by: Petra van der Zande. Neot Kedumim , Israel.
