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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).
Components of a simple drawn plow: 1) beam; 2) three point hitch; 3) height regulator; 4) coulter (or knife) 5) chisel 6) plowshare 7) moldboard Instrument for cleaning a plowshare used at a mill near Horažďovice, Czech Republic. In agriculture, a plowshare or ploughshare (UK; / ˈ p l aʊ ʃ ɛər /) is a component of a plow (or plough).
The image of transforming swords to plowshares has been widely adopted by social and political groups working for peace. The sculpture was conceived in 1994, when the artists heard of a gun buyback program coordinated by the Washington, D.C., police. After three years of work, Guns into Plowshares was completed in 1997 and erected in Judiciary ...
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'.
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.
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The blast in Las Vegas came just hours after a driver plowed a pickup truck into New Year's Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 and injuring more than 30 others ...
Swords to Plowshares is a veterans service organization that provides job training, housing, and benefits advocacy to low income and homeless U.S. military veterans.Since 1974, Swords to Plowshares has advocated on behalf of all veterans, providing services that are informed by the experiences of their clients.