Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
The smith isa 40
The tongs
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Bible References
The smith isa 40
Isaiah 41:6
Every man exhorted his neighbour, and brother, and bad him be strong.
Isaiah 46:6
Ye fools, no doubt, will take out silver and gold out of your purses, and weigh it, and hire a goldsmith to make a god of it, that men may kneel down and worship it.
Exodus 32:4
And he received them of their hands and fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf of molten metal. And they said, "This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt."
Jeremiah 10:3
Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;
The tongs
Habakkuk 2:13
Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?
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Psalm 107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Isaiah 40:19
Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates?