7 Bible Verses about Iron, Figurative Use Of

But you are Jehovah's people! He led you through fiery trials and rescued you from Egypt.

The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron.

You will rule them with an iron scepter. You will dash them to pieces like pottery!

I knew that you would prove to be stubborn. You were as rigid as iron and unyielding as copper.

Go and tell Hananiah: 'Jehovah has said, You may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.

It had legs of iron and its feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay. You watched while a stone was cut out without hands. It struck the statue upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. The iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broke in pieces together. It became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors. The wind carried them away and no place was found for them. The stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.read more.
This was the dream! We will interpret it for the king. You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory. He gave the children of men, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens to your hand. He made you the ruler over them all! You are the head of gold. After you another inferior kingdom will arise and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth. The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, since iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things. It is iron that crushes all these. It will break in pieces and crush. The feet and toes you saw, part of potters' clay, and part of iron will be a divided kingdom. It will have the strength of iron. However, you saw the iron mixed with clay.

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.