The Floating Axhead

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The Floating Axhead

• Let him have all your worries and cares, for he
  is always thinking about you and watching
  everything that concerns you.
• 1 Peter 57

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The Facts, Please!

• The first Tools were made of stone fastened to
  wood handles. A very hard stone, flint, was used
  from earliest times. Copper was the first metal
  used in tools, but it was too soft. Then bronze,
  an alloy of copper and tin, was found to be
  harder and to work better. The Israelites used
  tools and weapons made from bronze until the days
  of King Saul.

• Many tools used in Bible times are similar to
  those we use today (of course, our tools are
  greatly improved). Various types of saws, axes,
  hammers, knives, and other tools were common in
  the ancient world.

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More Facts, Please!

• The ax was an important tool used for felling
  trees and cutting the logs into lumber. The iron
  axhead was lashed to a wooden handle by thongs or
  some other means. This type of fastening often
  cause an axhead to fly off its handle.

• Even before that, the Philistines, Israels
  enemies, had learned the secret of how to smelt
  iron and make tools from it. Iron tools were
  much harder and sharper than the bronze ones
  were. When David defeated the Philistines, the
  Israelites learned their secret of making iron
  tools and weapons.

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Final Fact, Please!

• Could an iron axhead float on top of water? No,
  because iron is heavier than water, and the law
  of gravitation causes it to sink. The only way
  an iron axhead could float is for God, who
  created the force of gravity, to temporarily
  suspend that law.