39 Bible Verses about Brass

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Revelation 1:13-15

And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts. And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Joshua 22:8

And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

1 Kings 7:47

The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

Exodus 38:28-31

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands. The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels; From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,read more.
And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

1 Kings 7:14-47

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him. He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same. And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.read more.
There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other. And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way. The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across. And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown. He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz. The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete. And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round. And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal. It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them. It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths. And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework; And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps. Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one. The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round. The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high. The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal. And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base. And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high; In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round. All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form. And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases. And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south. And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord: The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars, And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars; And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them; And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it; And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass. He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

Ezra 8:27

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

1 Chronicles 15:19

So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;

1 Samuel 17:5-6

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

2 Chronicles 12:10

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

2 Kings 25:7

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

Psalm 107:16

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

1 Kings 4:13

... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.

Daniel 5:4

They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

Exodus 38:8

And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

Mark 7:4

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

Matthew 10:9

Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;

Mark 12:41

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

1 Kings 7:14

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Jeremiah 1:18

For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

Ezekiel 1:7

And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.

Daniel 2:32

As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,

Daniel 2:39

And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.

Daniel 7:19

Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;

Daniel 10:6

And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

Zechariah 6:1

And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

Revelation 1:15

And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

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Brass » Figurative

Daniel 10:6

And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

Daniel 7:19

Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;

Daniel 2:32

As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Brass » Articles made of » Altar, vessels, and other articles of the tabernacle and temple

Ezra 8:27

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

Exodus 38:28-31

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands. The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels; From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar, read more.
And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

1 Kings 7:14-47

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him. He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same. And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high. read more.
There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other. And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way. The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across. And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown. He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz. The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete. And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round. And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal. It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them. It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths. And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework; And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps. Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one. The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round. The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high. The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal. And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base. And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high; In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round. All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form. And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases. And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south. And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord: The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars, And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars; And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them; And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it; And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass. He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

Brass » Articles made of » Armor

1 Samuel 17:5-6

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass. His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

2 Chronicles 12:10

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Brass » Articles made of » Gates

Psalm 107:16

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

Brass » Abundance of, for the temple

1 Kings 7:47

The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

Brass » Smelted

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Ezekiel 22:20

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

Brass » Articles made of » Fetters

2 Kings 25:7

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

Brass » Articles made of » Money

Matthew 10:9

Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;

Mark 12:41

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

Brass » A mineral of canaan

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Joshua 22:8

And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

Brass » Articles made of » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

Brass » Articles made of » cymbals

1 Chronicles 15:19

So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;

Brass » Tyrians traded in

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

Brass » Articles made of » Bars

1 Kings 4:13

... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.

Brass » Articles made of » Trumpets

Brass » Alexander

Brass » Hiram

1 Kings 7:14

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

Brass » Articles made of » Mirrors

Exodus 38:8

And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

Brass » Workers » Tubal-cain

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Brass » Of syria

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

Brass » Articles made of » Household vessels

Mark 7:4

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

Brass » Working in, a trade

2 Chronicles 24:12

Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

1 Kings 7:14

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

Brass » Collected by david for the temple

1 Chronicles 22:14

Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.

1 Chronicles 22:3

And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;

1 Chronicles 29:2

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

Brass » Taken in war » Often in great quantities

2 Samuel 8:8

And from Tebah and Berothai, towns of Hadadezer, King David took a great store of brass.

Joshua 22:8

And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

2 Kings 25:13-16

And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon. And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men. read more.
The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

Brass » Taken in war » Generally consecrated to God

Joshua 6:19

But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

Joshua 6:24

Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

2 Samuel 8:10-11

He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass: These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--

Brass » Inferior in value to gold and silver

Daniel 2:32

As for this image, its head was made of the best gold, its breast and its arms were of silver, its middle and its sides were of brass,

Daniel 2:39

And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.

Isaiah 60:17

In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.

Brass » Canaan abounded in

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Brass » Made into » Shields

2 Chronicles 12:10

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:27

So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Brass » Extensive commerce in

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

Revelation 18:12

Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;

Brass » Takes a high polish

Ezekiel 1:7

And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.

2 Chronicles 4:16

All the pots and the spades and the meat-hooks and their vessels, which Huram, who was as his father, made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

Brass » Made into » Sockets for pillars

Exodus 38:10-11

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

Exodus 38:17

And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

Brass » Characterized by » Fusibility

Ezekiel 22:20

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

Brass » Illustrative of » The strength and firmness of Christ

Daniel 10:6

And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

Revelation 1:15

And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

Brass » Made into » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:

Brass » Illustrative of » Strength given to saints

Jeremiah 15:20

And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

Micah 4:13

Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Brass » Illustrative of » Obstinate sinners

Jeremiah 6:28

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Brass » Made into » Lavers

1 Kings 7:38

And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.

Exodus 30:18

You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;

Brass » Made into » Fetters

2 Kings 25:7

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

Brass » Moses made the serpent of

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

2 Kings 18:4

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

Brass » Made into » Sacred vessels

Exodus 27:3

And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.

1 Kings 7:45

And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

Brass » Made into » Altars

Exodus 39:39

And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;

Exodus 27:2

Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

Brass » Made into » Gates

Psalm 107:16

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

Brass » Coined for money

Matthew 10:9

Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;

Mark 12:41

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.

Brass » Offerings of, for the temple

1 Chronicles 29:6-7

Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves; And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

Brass » Characterized by » Sonorousness

Brass » Made into » Instruments of music

1 Chronicles 15:19

So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;

Brass » Illustrative of » Extreme drought

Deuteronomy 28:23

And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

Brass » Taken in war » Cleansed by fire

Numbers 31:21-23

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses: But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead, And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.

Brass » Characterized by » Hardness

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Brass » Illustrative of » The earth made barren

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Brass » Made into » Pillars

1 Kings 7:15-16

He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same. And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.

Brass » Dug out of the mountains

Deuteronomy 8:9

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

Brass » Illustrative of » The decrees of God

Zechariah 6:1

And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

Brass » Made into » Greaves for the legs

1 Samuel 17:6

His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

Brass » Made into » Helmets

1 Samuel 17:5

And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.

Brass » Made into » Bars for gates

1 Kings 4:13

... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.

Brass » Offerings of, for the tabernacle

Exodus 38:29

The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;

Brass » Antiquity of working in

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Brass » Illustrative of » Macedonian empire

Daniel 2:39

And after you another kingdom, lower than you, will come to power; and a third kingdom, of brass, ruling over all the earth.

Brass » Made into » Mirrors

Exodus 38:8

And he made the washing-vessel of brass on a brass base, using the polished brass looking-glasses given by the women who did work at the doors of the Tent of meeting.

Brass » Characterized by » Yellow color

Ezra 8:27

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

Brass » Characterized by » Strength

Job 40:18

His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

Brass » Made into » Household vessels

Mark 7:4

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

Brass » Purified by smelting

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Censers » Made of » Brass

Numbers 16:39

So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:

Commerce » Articles of » Brass

Ezekiel 27:13

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

Revelation 18:12

Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;

Gates » Made of » Brass

Psalm 107:16

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

Metals » Mentioned in scripture » Brass

Exodus 27:2

Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.

Exodus 27:4

And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.

2 Chronicles 12:10

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

Pillars » Made of » Brass

1 Kings 7:15

He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

Shields » Frequently made of, or covered with » Brass

1 Kings 14:27

So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

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Theasaurus: Brass

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