Knife

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

An edged tool used by Abraham in offering Isaac

• Genesis 22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Of the temple, returned from Babylon

• Ezra 1:9 This was the inventory: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 silver utensils,

Used for sharpening pens

• Jeremiah 36:23 And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

Self-flagellation with, in idolatrous worship

• 1 Kings 18:28 So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.