Isaiah 48:10

Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel

⁹ For sake of my name I will delay Mine anger; I will be muzzled towards thee, not cutting thee of ¹⁰ Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For my :sake, for my sake will I do: for how shall it be defiled? and I will not give my glory to another.

Furnace of Affliction

Deuteronomy 4:20

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

Jeremiah 9:7

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?

Job 23:10

For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 66:10

For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver.

1 Peter 1:7

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

1 Kings 8:51

For they thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Isaiah 1:25-26

And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:

Ezekiel 20:38

And I separated from you the rebellious and those transgressing against me: I will bring them forth from the land of their sojournings, and to the land of Israel they shall not come in: and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

Zechariah 13:8-9

And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it

Malachi 3:2-3

And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.

Hebrews 12:10-11

For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.

1 Peter 4:12

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:

Revelation 3:19

I, if as many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be emulous therefore, and repent.