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Brass, or Copper

 

Brass, or Copper

Dug out of the mountains - De 8:9

Purified by smelting - Job 28:2

CHARACTERISED BY

• Strength
- Job 40:18
• Hardness
- Le 26:19
• Yellow colour
- Ezr 8:27
• Fusibility
- Eze 22:18,20
• Sonorousness
- 1Co 13:1

Takes a high polish - 2Ch 4:16; Eze 1:7

Inferior in value to gold and silver - Isa 60:17; Da 2:32,39

Antiquity of working in - Ge 4:22

Extensive commerce in - Eze 27:13; Re 18:12

Working in, a trade - Ge 4:22; 1Ki 7:14; 2Ch 24:12; 2Ti 4:14

Canaan abounded in - De 8:9; 33:25

TAKEN IN WAR

• Often in great quantities
- Jos 22:8; 2Sa 8:8; 2Ki 25:13-16
• Cleansed by fire
- Nu 31:21-23
• Generally consecrated to God
- Jos 6:19,24; 2Sa 8:10,11

Offerings of, for the tabernacle - Ex 38:29

Collected by David for the temple - 1Ch 22:3,14,16; 29:2

Offerings of, for the temple - 1Ch 29:6,7

Coined for money - Mt 10:9; Mr 12:41

MADE INTO

• Mirrors
- Ex 38:8
• Gates
- Ps 107:16; Isa 45:2
• Bars for gates
- 1Ki 4:13
• Fetters
- Jud 16:21; 2Ki 25:7
• Shields
- 1Ki 14:27; 2Ch 12:10
• Helmets
- 1Sa 17:5
• Greaves for the legs
- 1Sa 17:6
• Household vessels
- Mr 7:4
• Sacred vessels
- Ex 27:3; 1Ki 7:45
• Altars
- Ex 27:2; 39:39
• Sockets for pillars
- Ex 38:10,11,17
• Lavers
- Ex 30:18; 1Ki 7:38
• Pillars
- 1Ki 7:15,16
• Idols
- Da 5:4; Re 9:20
• Instruments of music
- 1Ch 15:19

Moses made the serpent of - Nu 21:9; 2Ki 18:4

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Obstinate sinners
- Isa 48:4; Jer 6:28
• The decrees of God
- Zec 6:1
• The strength and firmness of Christ
- Da 10:6; Re 1:15
• Strength given to saints
- Jer 15:20; Mic 4:13
• Macedonian empire
- Da 2:39
• Extreme drought
- De 28:23
• The earth made barren
- Le 26:19
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