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Iron

 

Iron

Dug out of the earth - Job 28:2

DESCRIBED AS

• Strong and durable
- Job 40:18; Da 2:40
• Fusible
- Eze 22:20
• Malleable
- Isa 2:4

Of greater gravity than water - 2Ki 6:5

Admits of a high polish - Eze 27:19

Hardened into steel - 2Sa 22:35; Job 20:24

Of small comparative value - Isa 60:17

The land of Canaan abounded with - De 8:9; 33:25

From the north hardest and best - Jer 15:12

Used from the earliest age - Ge 4:22

MADE INTO

• Armour
- 2Sa 23:7; Re 9:9
• Weapons of war
- 1Sa 13:19; 17:7
• Chariots
- Jud 4:3
• Implements for husbandry
- 1Sa 13:20,21; 2Sa 12:31
• Tools for artificers
- Jos 8:31; 1Ki 6:7
• Graving tools
- Job 19:24; Jer 17:1
• Gates
- Ac 12:10
• Nails and hinges
- 1Ch 22:3
• Bars
- Ps 107:16; Isa 45:2
• Fetters
- Ps 105:18; 149:8
• Yokes
- De 28:48; Jer 28:13,14
• Idols
- Da 5:4,23
• Bedsteads
- De 3:11
• Pillars
- Jer 1:18
• Rods
- Ps 2:9; Re 2:27

Sharpens things made of - Pr 27:17

Working in, a trade - 1Sa 13:19; 2Ch 2:7,14

An article of commerce - Eze 27:12,19; Re 18:12

Great quantity of, provided for the temple - 1Ch 22:3,14,16; 29:2

Taken in war, often dedicated to God - Jos 6:19,24

Mode of purifying, taken in war - Nu 31:21-23

Miraculously made to swim - 2Ki 6:6

Illustrative

• Of strength
- Da 2:33,40
• Of stubbornness
- Isa 48:4
• Of severe affliction
- De 4:20; Ps 107:10
• Of a hard barren soil
- De 28:23
• Of severe exercise of power
- Ps 2:9; Re 2:27
• (Seared with,) of insensibility of conscience
- 1Ti 4:2
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