Ovens

Ovens were a common feature of domestic life and activity

Exodus 8:1–4

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me. But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls. The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”

Uses for ovens

For baking bread

See also Leviticus 26:23–26

For baking grain offerings

Leviticus 2:4, Leviticus 7:9

Ovens could be rendered unclean

Leviticus 11:35

Ovens were characterised by great heat

Lamentations 5:10; Hosea 7:4, Hosea 7:6–7

The Tower of the Ovens was a place in Jerusalem in Nehemiah's day

Nehemiah 3:11, Nehemiah 12:38