This is the stannum of the ancients, found alloyed with lead, etc., but separated by smelting. It is not known to have been found in Palestine, but would have been early known there and was imported from Tarshish. Numbers 31:22; Isaiah 1:25; Ezekiel 22:18,20; Ezekiel 27:12 .
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