Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Cross References Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Proverbs 20:26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them. Isaiah 28:26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly. Isaiah 28:28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it. Amos 1:3 This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron. Treasury of Scripture For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. threshed Isaiah 41:15 2 Kings 13:7 Amos 1:3 the fitches Isaiah 27:7,8 Jeremiah 10:24 Jeremiah 46:28 |