Iron

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. First recorded use ofGenesis 4:22
• Ore ofDeuteronomy 8:9Job 28:2
• MeltedEzekiel 22:20
• Used in the temple1 Chronicles 22:31 Chronicles 29:21 Chronicles 29:7
• Articles made of
• Ax2 Kings 6:62 Chronicles 18:10Ecclesiastes 10:10Isaiah 10:34
• BedsteadDeuteronomy 3:11
• BreastplateRevelation 9:9
• ChariotJoshua 17:16Joshua 17:18Judges 1:19Judges 4:3
• FettersPsalms 105:18Psalms 107:10Psalms 107:16Psalms 149:8
• FileProverbs 27:17
• FurnaceDeuteronomy 4:201 Kings 8:51Jeremiah 11:4

The passages, in Bible order (57)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 4:22

   And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

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   “The sister of Tubalcain is Noema. Noema is interpreted as Pleasure. Well, the lineage of Cain fittingly ends with the birth of a woman; and the same woman is named Pleasure: because the entire intention of the wicked in the world serves allurements, and they …

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2. Numbers 35:16

   If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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   “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die,.... As with an hatchet, hammer, sword, knife, &c. he is a murderer; the instrument used by him, and with which he smote, shows that he had a bad design, and intended to kill, or he would never have smitten a man with such an instrument: the murderer shall surely be put to death; be condemned to death, and be executed, by the order of the civil magistrate, according to the law in Gen 9:6 and not be allowed the benefit of a city of refuge.

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3. Deuteronomy 3:11

   (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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   “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants,....

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4. 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.

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   “But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace,....

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5. Deuteronomy 8:9

   a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

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   “A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness,....

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6. Deuteronomy 28:48

   you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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   “Therefore shall thou serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee,....

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7. Joshua 6:24

   Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 6:241 voice

   “And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein,.... As Babylon the great, of which this city was an emblem, as has been observed; see Gill on Jos 6:20; will be burnt with fire also, Rev 18:8, only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord; See Gill on Jos 6:19.

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8. Joshua 17:16

   “The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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   “And the children of Joseph said, the hill is not enough for us,....

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9. Joshua 17:18

   because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”

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10. Joshua 19:38

    Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.

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    “And Iron,....

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11. Judges 1:19

    The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.

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    “And the Lord was with Judah,....

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12. Judges 4:3

    Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

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13. 1 Samuel 17:7

    The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 17:71 voice

    “And his armor-bearer went before him. The armor-bearer precedes Goliath as he goes out against Israel, just as the weapons of iniquity and the examples of the wicked precede and assist the devil as he tries to deceive the faithful.

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14. 2 Samuel 12:31

    David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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    “And he brought forth the people that were therein,....

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15. 2 Samuel 23:7

    The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

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    “But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear,....

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16. 1 Kings 6:7

    The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 6:71 voice

    “Christ knocks with his hand that you may open, whereas the adversary cuts the door down with axes; and therefore it is written that hammer and axe should not enter into the house of God. Pride and deceit ought to be outdoors, not inside; conflicts indeed ought to be outside; but within, the peace that surpasses all understanding. Let not your soul be cut with the iron, but even as Joseph's soul, so may your soul pass by the iron.

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