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Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.” — Joel 3:10 or 4:10 in the Masoretic system. This is the opposite of what Micah says in Micah 4:3 (see below).
In 1959, a bronze statue promoting the slogan Let Us Beat Swords into Ploughshares was donated by the Soviet Union to the United Nations. It was sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich to represent the human wish to end all wars by converting the weapons of death and destruction into peaceful and productive tools that are more beneficial to mankind. [10]
The Plowshares movement takes its name from the idea of beating swords to ploughshares in the Book of Isaiah: And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the L ORD , to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and ...
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957) [5] Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" in Volgograd. A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square. The Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963–1967)
The ancient phrase from the biblical Book of Isaiah, "to turn swords to ploughshares," is still in common use today. These plowshares represent peaceful use of wartime capabilities. On the other hand, the Book of Joel uses the phrase in reverse, "Beat your plowshares into swords".
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Many speeches and movements concerned with peace and the adaptation of military technology to peaceful uses have adopted the phrase "swords into plowshares". The verse is a reversal of Joel 3:10, where the ploughshares and pruning hooks are to become swords and spears, as it is related to 'the need for continued conflict'. [6]
A man operating the saw then sliced through the gun with a crunch as sparks flew and a crowd of Episcopal clergy and gun control advocates applauded.