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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 2:4

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