Iron

Dug out of the earth Job 28:2
DESCRIBED AS
- Strong and durable Job 40:18; Daniel 2:40
- Fusible Ezekiel 22:20
- Malleable Isaiah 2:4
Of greater gravity than water 2 Kings 6:5
Admits of a high polish Ezekiel 27:19
Hardened into steel 2 Samuel 22:35; Job 20:24
Of small comparative value Isaiah 60:17
The land of Canaan abounded with Deuteronomy 8:9; 33:25
From the north hardest and best Jeremiah 15:12
Used from the earliest age Genesis 4:22
MADE INTO
- Armour 2 Samuel 23:7; Revelation 9:9
- Weapons of war 1 Samuel 13:19; 17:7
- Chariots Judges 4:3
- Implements for husbandry 1 Samuel 13:20,21; 2 Samuel 12:31
- Tools for artificers Joshua 8:31; 1 Kings 6:7
- Graving tools Job 19:24; Jeremiah 17:1
- Gates Acts 12:10
- Nails and hinges 1 Chronicles 22:3
- Bars Psalm 107:16; Isaiah 45:2
- Fetters Psalm 105:18; 149:8
- Yokes Deuteronomy 28:48; Jeremiah 28:13,14
- Idols Daniel 5:4,23
- Bedsteads Deuteronomy 3:11
- Pillars Jeremiah 1:18
- Rods Psalm 2:9; Revelation 2:27
Sharpens things made of Proverbs 27:17
Working in, a trade 1 Samuel 13:19; 2 Chronicles 2:7,14
An article of commerce Ezekiel 27:12,19; Revelation 18:12
Great quantity of, provided for the temple 1 Chronicles 22:3,14,16; 29:2
Taken in war, often dedicated to God Joshua 6:19,24
Mode of purifying, taken in war Numbers 31:21-23
Miraculously made to swim 2 Kings 6:6
Illustrative
- Of strength Daniel 2:33,40
- Of stubbornness Isaiah 48:4
- Of severe affliction Deuteronomy 4:20; Psalm 107:10
- Of a hard barren soil Deuteronomy 28:23
- Of severe exercise of power Psalm 2:9; Revelation 2:27
- (Seared with,) of insensibility of conscience 1 Timothy 4:2

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