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Iron Sickle Blade

Iron Sickle Blade



‎Archaeologists found the iron sickle blade pictured here at Tell el-Hesi, an ancient site southwest of the modern Israeli city of Qiryat Gat. Dating is uncertain but the blade goes back at least to pre-Hellenistic times. Iron blades were vastly preferable to bronze or softer metals because they could take a much sharper edge and because they were harder and so did not dull as easily as many other metals.
‎Deut 23:25, 1 Sam 13:20–21, Prov 27:17, Jer 50:16, Joel 3:13, Mark 4:29, Rev 14:14–19

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