Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.

a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.

Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”

Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Causing to Stumble

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Causing to Stumble

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.

It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

The Finality of Babylon’s Doom

Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.

The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No worker of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.