Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
The house
In the midst
General references
Bible References
The house
Psalm 119:119
All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.
Isaiah 1:22
Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.
Jeremiah 6:28
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
Brass
Ezekiel 22:20
As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
Isaiah 48:4
Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.
In the midst
Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.
Isaiah 31:9
His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
General references
Ezekiel 24:4
put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.