Reference: Nails
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For the temple "David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings." 1Ch 22:3; but apparently gold nails were used for some parts of the interior. 2Ch 3:9. The tent pegs were also called nails, though made most probably of hard wood, and perhaps pointed with iron. It was with a tent peg that Jael killed Sisera. Jg 4:21-22. In houses in the East many articles are hung upon nails for safety, hence 'a nail in a sure place,' denotes security and is figurative of the safety of anything that depends upon God. Isa 22:23,25; cf. Ec 12:11; Zec 10:4 .
Nails pierced the hands and feet of the Saviour when they crucified Him, the marks of which He showed to the disciples after His resurrection, Joh 20:20,25; and which marks He still retains. Zec 13:6.
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Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek." He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of collections, which are given from one shepherd.
I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
"In that day," says the LORD of hosts, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken it."
From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your hands?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."