From Nave’s Topical Bible
Furnace
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 12Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Use of
- For refining silverEzekiel 22:22Malachi 3:3
- For refining goldProverbs 17:3
- For melting lead and tinEzekiel 22:20
- For capital punishment, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego cast into, by NebuchadnezzarDaniel 3:6–26
- FIGURATIVE
- Of afflictionDeuteronomy 4:201 Kings 8:51Psalms 12:6Isaiah 48:10Jeremiah 11:4
- Of lustHosea 7:4
- Of hellMalachi 4:1Matthew 13:42Matthew 13:50Revelation 9:2
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 4:20
Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:201 voice
But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 8:51
For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
Commentary on 1 Kings 8:511 voice
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance,.... Whom the Lord had chosen above all people, to be a special people to him, and to be his portion and possession; see Deu 7:6. which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron; hard and cruel bondage in Egypt: See Gill on Deu 4:20.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 12:6
The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
Commentary on Psalms 12:61 voice
When Israel had left Egypt, God forbade the people to even touch the mountain where he was giving the Law, because they were far from being "on fire" for the Lord. He did, however, call the blessed Moses to that mountain. Moses was totally committed to him and clung to his grace, so God said, "Let Moses alone draw near." So Moses climbed up the mountain into the cloud, and although that mountain smoked with the heat and presence of the Lord, Moses was unharmed.
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTERS 3:4, 373Patristic
- Proverbs 17:3
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Commentary on Proverbs 17:31 voice
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 48:10
See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Commentary on Isaiah 48:102 voices
(Verse 3, 4 and following) I announced the former things long ago, they went out from my mouth, and I made them heard. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. For I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze. I foretold them to you long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, 'My idols did these things, and my carved images and molded idols commanded them.' You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it?
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
I have refined you, wishing to cleanse you through trials, but not as silver, which is cleansed, but you were not corrected: the founder has melted in vain (Jer 6:29); I have chosen you, namely, cleansing you through poverty, punishing you by the plundering of …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
- Jeremiah 11:4
which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:41 voice
(Ver. 4.) Cursed is the man who does not listen to the words of this covenant that I commanded your fathers on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying: Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you, and you shall be my people, and I will be your Lord (or God). Not because of the privileges of lineage, not because of the injury of circumcision, and the rest of the Sabbath, but because of obedience, God becomes the people of Israel, and Israel becomes his people.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 22:20
Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
Commentary on Ezekiel 22:202 voices
(Vers. 17 seqq.) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All of them, copper, tin, iron, and lead, are in the midst of the furnace; they have become silver dross. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become like dross, behold, I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem as a gathering of silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead in the midst of the furnace, to kindle a fire in it for melting.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace,.... As refiners of metal do; though not together, as here, but each metal apart.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezekiel 22:22
As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’”
Commentary on Ezekiel 22:222 voices
(Vers. 17 seqq.) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, the house of Israel has become like dross to me. All of them, copper, tin, iron, and lead, are in the midst of the furnace; they have become silver dross. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become like dross, behold, I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem as a gathering of silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead in the midst of the furnace, to kindle a fire in it for melting.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
As silver is melted in the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Daniel 3:6–26
And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
Commentary on Daniel 3:6–261 voice
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth,.... Who refuses to worship it, or wilfully neglects it; which would be interpreted a contempt of it, and of the king's command: shall in the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; such as were used to burn stones in for lime, as Jarchi observes: the music was to draw, the furnace was to drive, men to this idolatrous worship; the one was to please and sooth the minds of men, and so allure them to such stupid service; the other to frighten them into obedience.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Commentary on Hosea 7:41 voice
"All adulterers are like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested for a little while from the mixture of the ferment, until it had fermented all. " LXX: "All adulterers are like a burning oven for baking bread, heated by the fire of mixed bread, until it has fermented all."
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 7:4, 420Patristic
- Malachi 3:3
And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
Commentary on Malachi 3:31 voice
(Verse 3) He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will offer sacrifices to the Lord in righteousness. LXX: He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
Jerome· Commentary on Malachi, 420Patristic
- Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Matthew 13:42
And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Commentary on Matthew 13:422 voices
(Verse 37 onwards) And he answered, saying: The one who sows good seed is the Son of Man. But the field is the world. And the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom. But the weeds are the sons of the evil one. And the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And the harvest is the end of the age. And the reapers are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
He affirms, lastly, that "the very hairs of our head are all numbered," and in the affirmation He of course includes the promise of their safety; for if they were to be lost, where would be the use of having taken such a numerical care of them? Surely the only use lies (in this truth): "That of all which the Father hath given to me, I should lose none," -not even a hair, as also not an eye nor a tooth.
Tertullian· On the Resurrection of the Flesh, 220Patristic
- Matthew 13:50
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Commentary on Matthew 13:502 voices
And those who attended to the net that was cast into the sea are Jesus Christ, the master of the net, and "the angels who came and ministered to him." It is not until the net is filled full that they will draw it up from the sea and carry it to the shore beyond the sea—namely, to things beyond this life—but not until the "fullness of the Gentiles" has been drawn into it. But when that fullness has come, then they draw it up from things here below and carry it to what is figuratively called the shore.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 10.12, 253Patristic
For when the end of the world shall be come, then shall be shown the true test of separating the fishes, and as in a sheltered harbour the good shall be sent into the vessels of heavenly abodes, but the flame of hell shall seize the wicked to be dried up and withered.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Revelation 9:2
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
Commentary on Revelation 9:21 voice
And the smoke of the pit arose, like the smoke of a great furnace, etc. Proclaiming the great furnace, that is, the final persecution, the heretical madness rages, not only attempting to obscure the light of the weaker ones, who, like the air, touch the …
Bede· Commentary on Revelation, 735Patristic