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 picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went to him while he was fast asleep and drove the peg into his temple and it went down into the ground. He was fast asleep and weary. So he died. Barak pursued Sisera and Jael came out to meet him. She said to him: Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He went to her tend and saw Sisera lay dead with the peg in his temple.
He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more copper than could be weighed.
The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
The words of the wise are like prodding goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They are given from one shepherd.
I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father's house.
Jehovah of Hosts says: 'In that day the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall. The load that was on it will be destroyed.' Jehovah has spoken.
The corner stone will come from them. The tent peg will come from them. Every ruler and the battle bow will come from them.
One will ask him: What are these wounds between your arms? He will answer: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were glad, when they saw the Lord.
The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. He said: Unless I feel the print of the nails in his hands and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.