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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 2:4Of 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 2:27Sharpens 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
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