Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Bible References
The founder
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?
Proverbs 17:3
A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.
Zechariah 13:9
And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'
Malachi 3:2
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.
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 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,
General references
Leviticus 14:43
'And if the plague return, and hath broken out in the house, after he hath drawn out the stones, and after the scraping of the house, and after the daubing;
Isaiah 5:4
What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to it, Thou art a land, It is not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignation.