39 Bible Verses about Brass

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Revelation 1:13-15

There was someone like the Son of man in the midst of the seven lamp stands. He was clothed with a garment that reached down to the feet, and girded at the chest with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like fine brass glowing in a furnace. His voice sounded like many rushing waters.

Deuteronomy 8:9

The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.

Joshua 22:8

He said: Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

2 Samuel 8:8

King David also took a large quantity of copper from Betah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities.

Ezekiel 27:13

Japan, Tubal and Meshech were your traders. They paid for your merchandise with the lives of men and vessels of bronze.

1 Kings 7:47

Solomon did not weigh all the utensils because so much copper was used. No one tried to determine how much the copper weighed.

1 Chronicles 22:14

I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of Jehovah three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of gold, about thirty-seven thousand five hundred tons of silver, quantities of copper and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.

Exodus 38:28-31

Bezalel used forty-four pounds of silver to make the hooks and bands for the posts and the coverings for the tops of the posts. The offerings presented to Jehovah weighted five thousand three hundred and ten pounds. He used this to make the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the copper altar with its copper grate and all its accessories,read more.
the bases all around the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, all the pegs for the tent, and all the pegs for the surrounding courtyard.

1 Kings 7:14-47

Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work. Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple. He also made two copper crowns. Each one was seven and one half feet tall. They were to be placed on top of the columns.read more.
The top of each column was decorated with a design of interwoven chains. They had two rows of copper pomegranates. The crowns on the top of the columns were shaped like lilies, six feet tall, and were placed on a rounded section which was above the chain design. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows around each crown. Huram placed these two copper columns in front of the entrance of the Temple. The column on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north was named Boaz. The lily-shaped copper crowns were on top of the columns. The work on the columns was completed. Hiram made a round tank of copper, seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference. All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of copper gourds. They were all cast in one piece with the rest of the tank. The tank rested on the backs of twelve copper bulls that faced outward. Three faced in each direction. The sides of the tank were three inches thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup. It curved outward like the petals of a lily. The tank held about ten thousand gallons. Huram also made ten copper carts. Each cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and four and one half feet high. They were made of square panels set in frames. There were figures of lions, bulls, and cherubim on the panels. And there were spiral relief figures on the frames above and underneath the lions and bulls. Each cart had four copper wheels with copper axles. At the four corners were copper supports for a basin. The supports were decorated with spiral relief figures. There was a circular frame on top for the basin. It projected eighteen inches upward from the top of the cart and seven inches down into it. It had carvings around it. The wheels were under the panels. They were twenty-five inches high. The axles were of one piece with the carts. The wheels were like chariot wheels. Their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of copper. There were four supports at the bottom corners of each cart. They were of one piece with the cart. There was a nine-inch band around the top of each cart. Its supports and the panels were of one piece with the cart. The supports and panels were decorated with figures of cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was space for them, with spiral figures all around. This is how the carts were made. They were all alike, having the same size and shape. Huram made ten basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet in diameter and held two hundred gallons. He placed five of the carts on the south side of the Temple. The other five were placed on the north side. The tank was placed at the southeast corner. Huram made the pots and spades and the basins. Huram finished all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of Jehovah. 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, The four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars; The ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them; The great water-vessel (molten sea) (copper sea), with the twelve oxen under it; And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Huram made for King Solomon, for the house of Jehovah, were of polished brass. He made them of liquid metal in the lowland district of the Jordan River. This was at the river crossing at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon did not weigh all the utensils because so much copper was used. No one tried to determine how much the copper weighed.

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

The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to play bronze cymbals.

1 Samuel 17:5-6

He had a headdress of copper on his head. He was dressed in a coat of metal that weighed one hundred twenty five pounds. He had copper shin guards on his legs and on his back a copper javelin.

2 Chronicles 12:10

As a result King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them. He put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

2 Kings 25:7

They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

Psalm 107:16

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

1 Kings 4:13

Bengeber: the city of Ramoth in Gilead, and the villages in Gilead belonging to the clan of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, and the region of Argob in Bashan, sixty large towns in all, fortified with walls and with bronze bars on the gates.

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and of stone.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.

Exodus 38:8

He made the laver (basin) of copper with its base of copper, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Mark 7:4

When they come from the marketplace they wash themselves before they eat. They follow many other rules. They wash their cups, and brass pots, and other vessels.

Matthew 10:9

Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.

Mark 12:41

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much.

Genesis 4:22

Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of copper and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.

1 Kings 7:14

Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work.

Leviticus 26:19

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

Jeremiah 1:18

Today I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a copper wall. You will be able to stand up to the whole land. You will be able to stand up to Judah's kings, its officials, its priests, and all the common people.

Ezekiel 1:7

Their legs were straight. Their feet were like those of calves and they glittered like polished copper.

Daniel 2:32

The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.

Daniel 2:39

After you another inferior kingdom will arise and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth.

Daniel 7:19

I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast that was different from the others. This beast was exceeding terrible. It had teeth made of iron. Its claws were made of copper. It devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped what was left with its feet.

Daniel 10:6

His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd.

Zechariah 6:1

I opened my eyes again and saw four chariots. They came out from between two mountains. The mountains were mountains of copper.

Revelation 1:15

His feet were like fine brass glowing in a furnace. His voice sounded like many rushing waters.

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Brass » Figurative

Daniel 10:6

His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd.

Daniel 7:19

I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast that was different from the others. This beast was exceeding terrible. It had teeth made of iron. Its claws were made of copper. It devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped what was left with its feet.

Daniel 2:32

The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.

Leviticus 26:19

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

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

Bezalel used forty-four pounds of silver to make the hooks and bands for the posts and the coverings for the tops of the posts. The offerings presented to Jehovah weighted five thousand three hundred and ten pounds. He used this to make the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the copper altar with its copper grate and all its accessories, read more.
the bases all around the courtyard, the bases for the entrance to the courtyard, all the pegs for the tent, and all the pegs for the surrounding courtyard.

1 Kings 7:14-47

Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work. Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple. He also made two copper crowns. Each one was seven and one half feet tall. They were to be placed on top of the columns. read more.
The top of each column was decorated with a design of interwoven chains. They had two rows of copper pomegranates. The crowns on the top of the columns were shaped like lilies, six feet tall, and were placed on a rounded section which was above the chain design. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows around each crown. Huram placed these two copper columns in front of the entrance of the Temple. The column on the south side was named Jachin and the one on the north was named Boaz. The lily-shaped copper crowns were on top of the columns. The work on the columns was completed. Hiram made a round tank of copper, seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference. All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of copper gourds. They were all cast in one piece with the rest of the tank. The tank rested on the backs of twelve copper bulls that faced outward. Three faced in each direction. The sides of the tank were three inches thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup. It curved outward like the petals of a lily. The tank held about ten thousand gallons. Huram also made ten copper carts. Each cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and four and one half feet high. They were made of square panels set in frames. There were figures of lions, bulls, and cherubim on the panels. And there were spiral relief figures on the frames above and underneath the lions and bulls. Each cart had four copper wheels with copper axles. At the four corners were copper supports for a basin. The supports were decorated with spiral relief figures. There was a circular frame on top for the basin. It projected eighteen inches upward from the top of the cart and seven inches down into it. It had carvings around it. The wheels were under the panels. They were twenty-five inches high. The axles were of one piece with the carts. The wheels were like chariot wheels. Their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of copper. There were four supports at the bottom corners of each cart. They were of one piece with the cart. There was a nine-inch band around the top of each cart. Its supports and the panels were of one piece with the cart. The supports and panels were decorated with figures of cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was space for them, with spiral figures all around. This is how the carts were made. They were all alike, having the same size and shape. Huram made ten basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet in diameter and held two hundred gallons. He placed five of the carts on the south side of the Temple. The other five were placed on the north side. The tank was placed at the southeast corner. Huram made the pots and spades and the basins. Huram finished all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of Jehovah. 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, The four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars; The ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them; The great water-vessel (molten sea) (copper sea), with the twelve oxen under it; And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Huram made for King Solomon, for the house of Jehovah, were of polished brass. He made them of liquid metal in the lowland district of the Jordan River. This was at the river crossing at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon did not weigh all the utensils because so much copper was used. No one tried to determine how much the copper weighed.

Brass » Articles made of » Armor

1 Samuel 17:5-6

He had a headdress of copper on his head. He was dressed in a coat of metal that weighed one hundred twenty five pounds. He had copper shin guards on his legs and on his back a copper javelin.

2 Chronicles 12:10

As a result King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them. He put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.

Brass » Articles made of » Gates

Psalm 107:16

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

Brass » Abundance of, for the temple

1 Kings 7:47

Solomon did not weigh all the utensils because so much copper was used. No one tried to determine how much the copper weighed.

1 Chronicles 22:14

I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of Jehovah three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of gold, about thirty-seven thousand five hundred tons of silver, quantities of copper and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.

Brass » Smelted

Job 28:2

Iron is taken from the ground, and rocks are melted for their copper.

Ezekiel 22:20

As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you there and melt (liquefy) you.

Brass » Articles made of » Fetters

2 Kings 25:7

They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

Brass » Articles made of » Money

Matthew 10:9

Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.

Mark 12:41

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much.

Brass » A mineral of canaan

Deuteronomy 8:9

The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.

Joshua 22:8

He said: Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

Brass » Articles made of » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and of stone.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.

Brass » Articles made of » cymbals

1 Chronicles 15:19

The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to play bronze cymbals.

Brass » Tyrians traded in

Ezekiel 27:13

Japan, Tubal and Meshech were your traders. They paid for your merchandise with the lives of men and vessels of bronze.

Brass » Articles made of » Bars

1 Kings 4:13

Bengeber: the city of Ramoth in Gilead, and the villages in Gilead belonging to the clan of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, and the region of Argob in Bashan, sixty large towns in all, fortified with walls and with bronze bars on the gates.

Brass » Articles made of » Trumpets

Brass » Alexander

Brass » Hiram

1 Kings 7:14

Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work.

Brass » Articles made of » Mirrors

Exodus 38:8

He made the laver (basin) of copper with its base of copper, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Brass » Workers » Tubal-cain

Genesis 4:22

Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of copper and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.

Brass » Of syria

2 Samuel 8:8

King David also took a large quantity of copper from Betah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities.

Brass » Articles made of » Household vessels

Mark 7:4

When they come from the marketplace they wash themselves before they eat. They follow many other rules. They wash their cups, and brass pots, and other vessels.

Brass » Working in, a trade

2 Chronicles 24:12

The king and Jehoiada gave the money to the foremen who were working on Jehovah's Temple. They hired masons and carpenters to renovate Jehovah's Temple. They also hired men who worked with iron and bronze to repair Jehovah's Temple.

Genesis 4:22

Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of copper and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.

1 Kings 7:14

Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work.

Brass » Collected by david for the temple

1 Chronicles 22:14

I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of Jehovah three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of gold, about thirty-seven thousand five hundred tons of silver, quantities of copper and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.

1 Chronicles 22:3

He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more copper than could be weighed.

1 Chronicles 29:2

I have made every effort to prepare materials for the Temple: gold, silver, bronze, iron, timber, precious stones and gems, stones for mosaics, and quantities of marble.

Brass » Taken in war » Often in great quantities

2 Samuel 8:8

King David also took a large quantity of copper from Betah and Berothai, Hadadezer's cities.

Joshua 22:8

He said: Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

2 Kings 25:13-16

The copper pillars in the Temple of Jehovah, and the wheeled bases, and the great copper water-vessel in the Temple of Jehovah were broken up by the Chaldaeans. They took the copper to Babylon. The pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the copper vessels used in Jehovah's Temple were taken away. The captain of the guard took all of the incense burners and bowls that were made of gold or silver. read more.
The bronze from the two pillars, the pool, and the stands that Solomon made for Jehovah's Temple could not be weighed.

Brass » Taken in war » Generally consecrated to God

Joshua 6:19

All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to Jehovah. They must come into the treasury of Jehovah.

Joshua 6:24

They burned the city and all its contents. They put the silver, gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

2 Samuel 8:10-11

He sent his son Joram to greet King David and congratulate him for fighting and defeating Hadadezer. There had often been war between Hadadezer and Toi. Joram brought articles of gold, silver, and copper with him. King David dedicated these articles to Jehovah, along with the silver and gold he dedicated from all the nations he conquered.

Brass » Inferior in value to gold and silver

Daniel 2:32

The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.

Daniel 2:39

After you another inferior kingdom will arise and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth.

Isaiah 60:17

I will bring gold instead of copper. I will bring silver instead of iron, copper instead of wood, and iron instead of stone. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

Brass » Canaan abounded in

Deuteronomy 8:9

The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.

Brass » Made into » Shields

2 Chronicles 12:10

As a result King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them. He put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.

1 Kings 14:27

King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.

Brass » Extensive commerce in

Ezekiel 27:13

Japan, Tubal and Meshech were your traders. They paid for your merchandise with the lives of men and vessels of bronze.

Revelation 18:12

The merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones, and of pearls, fine linen, purple and silk, scarlet, and everything in scented wood, all manner of ivory and all manner of most precious wood, of brass and iron and marble,

Brass » Takes a high polish

Ezekiel 1:7

Their legs were straight. Their feet were like those of calves and they glittered like polished copper.

2 Chronicles 4:16

pots, shovels, and three-pronged forks. Huram (Hiram-abiv) made all of them out of polished copper for Jehovah's Temple at King Solomon's request.

Brass » Made into » Sockets for pillars

Exodus 38:10-11

The courtyard had twenty pillars, and twenty sockets, made of copper. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver. The north side was also one hundred and fifty feet long with twenty posts and twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts were made of silver.

Exodus 38:17

The bases for the posts were made of copper. The hooks and bands on the posts were made of silver. The tops of the posts were covered with silver. And the bands on all the posts of the courtyard were made of silver.

Brass » Characterized by » Fusibility

Ezekiel 22:20

As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you there and melt (liquefy) you.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Brass » Illustrative of » The strength and firmness of Christ

Daniel 10:6

His body also was like chrysolite and his face as the appearance of lightning. His eyes were like flaming torches and his arms and his feet like burnished copper. The sound of his words was like the sound of a crowd.

Revelation 1:15

His feet were like fine brass glowing in a furnace. His voice sounded like many rushing waters.

Brass » Made into » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and of stone.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.

Brass » Illustrative of » Strength given to saints

Jeremiah 15:20

I will make you a fortified wall of copper to these people. Though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares Jehovah.

Micah 4:13

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion! I will make your horn like iron and I will make your hoofs like brass. You will pulverize many nations into pieces. I will devote their profit and wealth to Jehovah the Lord of the whole earth.

Brass » Illustrative of » Obstinate sinners

Jeremiah 6:28

All of them are stubborn rebels. They go about telling false stories. They are copper and iron. They are all corrupt, all of them!

Brass » Made into » Lavers

1 Kings 7:38

Huram made ten basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet in diameter and held two hundred gallons.

Exodus 30:18

Make a copper basin with a bronze stand for washing. Put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and fill it with water.

Brass » Made into » Fetters

2 Kings 25:7

They put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, chained him with iron bands and took him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21

The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

Brass » Moses made the serpent of

Numbers 21:9

Moses made a copper snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the copper snake after they were bitten and lived.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places. He broke the stone pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah poles. The brass snake that Moses had made was crushed to powder at his command, 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

Make all the utensils for it out of copper: pots for taking away the altar's ashes, also shovels, bowls, forks, and incense burners.

1 Kings 7:45

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

Brass » Made into » Altars

Exodus 39:39

the copper altar with its copper grate, its poles, and all its accessories, the basin with its stand,

Exodus 27:2

Place a horn at each of its four corners. The four horns and the altar must be made out of one piece of wood covered with copper.

Brass » Made into » Gates

Psalm 107:16

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

Brass » Coined for money

Matthew 10:9

Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt.

Mark 12:41

He sat down near the collection boxes and observed how the crowd dropped money into the boxes. Many that were rich dropped in much.

Brass » Offerings of, for the temple

1 Chronicles 29:6-7

Then the heads of the clans, the officials of the tribes, the commanders of the army, and the administrators of the royal property volunteered to give. They gave the following for the work on the Temple: one hundred and ninety tons of gold, three hundred and eighty tons of silver, six hundred and seventy five tons of bronze, and three thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of iron.

Brass » Characterized by » Sonorousness

Brass » Made into » Instruments of music

1 Chronicles 15:19

The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to play bronze cymbals.

Brass » Illustrative of » Extreme drought

Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron.

Brass » Taken in war » Cleansed by fire

Numbers 31:21-23

Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle: This is what Jehovah's Law told Moses to do: Only the gold and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin and the lead, everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it will be clean. It must be purified with water for impurity. Anything that cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.

Brass » Characterized by » Hardness

Leviticus 26:19

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

Brass » Illustrative of » The earth made barren

Leviticus 26:19

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

Brass » Made into » Pillars

1 Kings 7:15-16

Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple. He also made two copper crowns. Each one was seven and one half feet tall. They were to be placed on top of the columns.

Brass » Dug out of the mountains

Deuteronomy 8:9

The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.

Brass » Illustrative of » The decrees of God

Zechariah 6:1

I opened my eyes again and saw four chariots. They came out from between two mountains. The mountains were mountains of copper.

Brass » Made into » Greaves for the legs

1 Samuel 17:6

He had copper shin guards on his legs and on his back a copper javelin.

Brass » Made into » Helmets

1 Samuel 17:5

He had a headdress of copper on his head. He was dressed in a coat of metal that weighed one hundred twenty five pounds.

Brass » Made into » Bars for gates

1 Kings 4:13

Bengeber: the city of Ramoth in Gilead, and the villages in Gilead belonging to the clan of Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, and the region of Argob in Bashan, sixty large towns in all, fortified with walls and with bronze bars on the gates.

Brass » Offerings of, for the tabernacle

Exodus 38:29

The offerings presented to Jehovah weighted five thousand three hundred and ten pounds.

Brass » Antiquity of working in

Genesis 4:22

Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of copper and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.

Brass » Illustrative of » Macedonian empire

Daniel 2:39

After you another inferior kingdom will arise and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth.

Brass » Made into » Mirrors

Exodus 38:8

He made the laver (basin) of copper with its base of copper, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway 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 tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.

Brass » Made into » Household vessels

Mark 7:4

When they come from the marketplace they wash themselves before they eat. They follow many other rules. They wash their cups, and brass pots, and other vessels.

Brass » Purified by smelting

Job 28:2

Iron is taken from the ground, and rocks are melted for their copper.

Censers » Made of » Brass

Numbers 16:39

The priest Eleazar took the copper incense burners that had been brought by those who had been burned to death. The incense burners were then hammered into thin metal sheets to cover the altar.

Commerce » Articles of » Brass

Ezekiel 27:13

Japan, Tubal and Meshech were your traders. They paid for your merchandise with the lives of men and vessels of bronze.

Revelation 18:12

The merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones, and of pearls, fine linen, purple and silk, scarlet, and everything in scented wood, all manner of ivory and all manner of most precious wood, of brass and iron and marble,

Gates » Made of » Brass

Psalm 107:16

He shattered bronze gates and cut iron bars in two.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go ahead of you, Cyrus. I will smooth out the rough places. I will break down the copper doors and cut through the iron bars.

Metals » Mentioned in scripture » Brass

Exodus 27:2

Place a horn at each of its four corners. The four horns and the altar must be made out of one piece of wood covered with copper.

Exodus 27:4

Make a grate for it out of copper mesh. Make a copper ring for each of the four corners of the grate.

2 Chronicles 12:10

As a result King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them. He put them by the entrance to the royal palace, where the captains of the guards were stationed.

Pillars » Made of » Brass

1 Kings 7:15

Huram cast two copper columns. Each one was twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference. They were placed at the entrance of the Temple.

Shields » Frequently made of, or covered with » Brass

1 Kings 14:27

King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.

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