Isaiah 48:10

Yahweh Refines Stubborn Israel

⁹ For My name's sake I defer Mine anger, And My praise I restrain for thee, So as not to cut thee off. ¹⁰ Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do it, For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.

Furnace of Affliction

Deuteronomy 4:20

And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance, as at this day.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

Job 23:10

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

Psalm 66:10

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

Proverbs 17:3

A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.

Ezekiel 22:18-22

The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,

1 Peter 1:7

that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

1 Kings 8:51

(for Thy people and Thy inheritance are they, whom Thou didst bring out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron) --

Isaiah 1:25-26

And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,

Ezekiel 20:38

And cleared out from you the rebels, And them transgressing against Me, From the land of their sojournings I bring them out, And unto the land of Israel they come not, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.

Zechariah 13:8-9

And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off -- they expire, And the third is left in it.

Malachi 3:2-3

And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he is as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller.

Hebrews 12:10-11

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

Revelation 3:19

'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;