75 Bible Verses about Iron

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Job 28:2

Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.

Deuteronomy 8:7-9

For Jehovah thy God brings thee to a good land, a land of torrents of water, fountains, and depths going forth in the valley and in the mountain; A land of wheat and barley and the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate, a land of the olive tree, of oil and honey; A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Ezekiel 22:20

The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you.

Numbers 31:21-23

And Eleazar the priest will say to the men of war coming from the battle, This the law of instruction which Jehovah commanded Moses: Only the gold and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, Every thing which shall come through fire ye shall make pass through fire, and it was cleansed: only with the water of uncleanness shall it be purified: and all which will not come through the fire ye shall make pass through the water.

Jeremiah 6:27-29

I gave thee a watch-tower among my people, a fortification, and thou shalt know and try their way. They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them. The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up.

Ezekiel 22:18

Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver.

Deuteronomy 4:20

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

1 Kings 8:51

For they thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Jeremiah 11:4

Which I commanded your fathers in the day of my bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying, Hear ye to my voice, and do them according to all that I shall command you: and be to me for a people, and I will be to you for God:

Revelation 18:11-12

And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more: The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble,

Joshua 22:6-8

And Joshua will bless them and will send them away; and they will go to their tents. And to half the tribe of Manasseh, Moses gave in Bashan: and to its half Joshua gave with their brethren from beyond Jordan to the sea. And also when Joshua sent them away to their tents he will bless them, And he will say to them, saying, With much riches turn back to your tents, and with exceeding many cattle, with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with exceeding many garments: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

Isaiah 60:17

Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of woods, brass, and instead of stones, iron: and I set thine overseers peace, and thy rulers justice.

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish thy merchant from the multitude of all riches: in silver, iron, alloy, and lead, they gave thy markets.

Daniel 2:40-43

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because that iron beats small, and makes thin all: and as iron breaks all these, it shall beat small and break. And that thou sawest the feet and toes, part of burnt clay of the potter, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; and from the firmness of iron to be in it, for which cause that thou sawest iron mingled with earthen-ware. And the toes of the feet, part of iron, and part of burnt clay, from the end of the kingdom shall be strong, and part shall be cut asunder.read more.
That thou sawest the iron mingled with the earthen-ware, mingling for themselves with the seed of men: and not cleaving to them this with this, so as iron not mingling with burnt clay.

Leviticus 26:19

And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Deuteronomy 28:23

And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

Job 40:15-18

Behold now, the great beast which I made with thee; he will eat grass as an ox. Behold now, his strength in his loins, and his power in the sinews of his belly. He will bend his tail as a cedar; the sinews of his thighs will be woven together.read more.
His bones tubes of brass; his bones as a hammered bar of iron.

Job 41:27

He will reckon iron for straw, and brass for wood of rottenness

Psalm 2:9

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou break them in pieces. kings, and be instructed, ye judging the land.

Revelation 2:27

And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father.

Revelation 19:15

And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.

Jeremiah 1:18

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

Jeremiah 15:12

Shall iron break the iron of the north, and brass?

Daniel 2:31-35

Thou, O king, wert seeing, and behold, one great image. This image vast, and its brightness excellent; it stood before thee, and its aspect terrible. This image, its head of good gold, the breasts and arms of silver, and the bowels and thighs of brass: The legs of iron, the feet part of iron, and part of burnt clay.read more.
Thou wert seeing even till a stone was cut out not with hands, and striking against the image upon the feet of iron and burnt clay, and breaking them in pieces. At that time were beaten small at once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, and they were as the chaff of the threshing-floor of summer; and the wind lifted them up and all place was not found for them: and the stone striking against the image was for a great rock, and filled all the earth.

Daniel 7:7

After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, fearful, and strong and powerful exceedingly; and great teeth of iron to it, eating and beating small, and treading down the remainder with its feet: and it being different from all the beasts that were before it; and ten horns to it.

Joshua 6:24

And they burnt the city in fire and all which is in it: only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and iron they gave to the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

Joshua 6:15-19

And it will be in the seventh day, and they will rise early in the ascending of the dawn, and they will encompass the city according to this judgment seven times; only in that day they encompassed the city seven times. And it will be in the seventh time the priests clanged with the trumpets and Joshua will say to the people, Shout; for Jehovah gave to you the city. And the city was devoted, it, and all which is in it, to Jehovah: only Rehab the harlot shall live; she and all which with her in the house, because she hid the messengers which we sent.read more.
And ye, watch ye from the devoted thing lest ye shall be devoted, and ye take from the devoted thing and ye set the camp of Israel to be devoted, and ye troubled it. And all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron, it holy to Jehovah: it shall be brought to the treasury of Jehovah.

Joshua 22:8

And he will say to them, saying, With much riches turn back to your tents, and with exceeding many cattle, with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with exceeding many garments: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

1 Chronicles 29:2

And with all my power I prepared for the house of my God, gold for gold, and silver for silver, and brass for brass, and iron for iron, woods for woods, and stones of onyx, and the fillings up, and stones of paint and of variegation, and every precious stone, and stones of white marble for multitude.

1 Chronicles 22:14-16

And behold in my affliction I prepared for the house of Jehovah, gold, a hundred thousand talents, and silver, a thousand thousand talents; and for brass and for iron, no weight; for it was for abundance: and woods and stones I prepared, and upon them thou wilt add. And with thee for abundance, they doing the work, hewers and workmen of stone and wood, and all the wise for all the work To gold, to silver, and to brass, and to iron, no number. Arise and do, and Jehovah will be with thee.

1 Chronicles 29:7

And will give for the service of the house of God, gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and silver ten thousand talents, and brass a myriad and eight thousand talents, and iron a hundred thousand talents.

2 Chronicles 2:7

And now send to me a man wise to work in gold and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and cerulean purple, and knowing to engrave engravings with the wise which are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which David my father prepared.

2 Chronicles 24:12

And the king and Jehoiada will give for doing the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and hewers and artificers will be hired to renew the house of Jehovah, and also for those working iron and brass to strengthen the house of Jehovah.

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also will bear Tubal Cain, sharpening every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

Deuteronomy 27:5

And build there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up iron upon them.

Joshua 8:30-31

Then Joshua will build an altar to Jehovah the God of Israel in mount Ebal. As Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the sons of Israel, as it was written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of stones complete; which iron was not lifted up upon them: and they will bring up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and will sacrifice peace.

2 Samuel 12:31

And the people which were in it he brought forth, and he will put at the saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron, and at axes of iron, and caused them to pass over through the brick-kiln: and thus he will do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 20:3

And he brought out the people that were in it, and he will contend with the saw and with threshing-sledges of iron, and with saws. And David will do thus to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back and all the people, to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 23:7

And the man laboring in them shall be filled with iron and the wood of a spear; and in fire burning they shall burn in the dwelling.

1 Kings 6:7

And the house in its building was built of stone completed from the quarry: and hammers and the axe, every instrument of iron was not heard in the house in its building.

2 Kings 6:5-6

And one will be felling the beam, and the iron fell into the water: and he will cry out and say, Alas, my lord! and it was borrowed. And the man of God will say, Where fell it? And he will cause him to see the place. And he will cut down wood and cast there; and the iron will overflow.

Job 19:23-24

Who will give now, and my words shall be written? who will give and they shall be delineated in a book?. They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, forever.

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah was written with a style of iron, with the nail of diamond: being graved upon the table of their heart, and to the horns of your altars.

Amos 1:3

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back for their threshing Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.

Psalm 105:18

They humbled his feet with the fetter: his soul came into iron:

Psalm 149:6-9

The liftings up of God in their throat, and a sword of two mouths in their hand; To do vengeance upon the nations, chastisements upon the peoples. To bind their kings in fetters, and their honorable ones in fetters of iron;read more.
To do upon them the judgment written: this honor to all his godly ones. Praise ye Jah.

Daniel 4:15

But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the open field; and in the dew of the heavens it shall be wet, and its portion with the beasts in the green herb of the earth.

Mark 5:1-4

And they went beyond the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And to him coming out of the ship, quickly a man met him from the monuments with an unclean spirit, Who had a dwelling among the monuments; and neither with chains could any one bind him:read more.
For he had been bound many times with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and none could tame him.

Judges 1:19

And Jehovah will be with Judah; and be will inherit the mountain because there was no driving out the inhabitants of the valley, for to them the chariot of iron.

Joshua 17:15-18

And Joshua will say to them, If thou much people go up for thyself to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzite and of the Rephaims, if mount Ephraim was narrow to thee. And the sons of Joseph will say, The mountain will not suffice to us: and the chariot of iron among all the Canaanites dwelling in the land of the valley, to whom in the House of Rest and her daughters, and to whom in the valley of Jezreel. And Joshua will say to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Much people art thou, and great power to thee: and one lot shall not be to thee:read more.
But the mountain shall be to thee, for it is a forest, and thou shalt cut it down; and its out-goings were to thee; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite, if the chariot of iron is to him; if he is strong.

Judges 4:2-3

And Jehovah will sell them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the captain of his army, Sisera; and he will dwell in Harosheth of the nations: And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.

Acts 12:10

And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.

1 Chronicles 22:3

And iron for abundance for nails for the doors of the gates, and for the junctions, David prepared; and brass for abundance no weight;

Psalm 107:15-16

They shall confess to Jehovah his mercy, and his wonders to the sons of man. For he broke the brazen doors, and cut off the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and I will make straight the circles: I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and I will cut down the bars of iron:

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

Numbers 35:16

And if with an instrument of iron he smote him, the slayer shall die; the slayer he dying. shall die.

Job 20:24

He shall flee from the weapon of iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him.

Revelation 9:9

And they had coats-of-mail, as coats-of-mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war.

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:23

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Deuteronomy 28:48

And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

Jeremiah 28:13-14

Go and say to Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Thou didst break the staves of wood; but make instead of them staves of iron. For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, I gave an iron yoke upon the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel: and they served him: and also the beasts of the field I gave to him.

1 Kings 22:11

And Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, will make to him horns of iron: and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, With these shalt thou push Aram till thou finished them. .

2 Chronicles 18:10

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah will make for himself horns of iron; and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, With these shalt thou strike Aram even to finishing them.

Ezekiel 4:3

And thou, take to thee an iron pan and give it a wall of iron between thee and between the city: and prepare thy face against it, and she was in siege, and press upon her. This a sign to the house of Israel.

Deuteronomy 3:11

For only Og, king Of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaims; behold, his bed, a bed of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.

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Beds » Made of » Iron

Deuteronomy 3:11

For only Og, king Of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaims; behold, his bed, a bed of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.

Gates » Made of » Iron

Acts 12:10

And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.

Iron » Great quantity of, provided for the temple

1 Chronicles 22:14

And behold in my affliction I prepared for the house of Jehovah, gold, a hundred thousand talents, and silver, a thousand thousand talents; and for brass and for iron, no weight; for it was for abundance: and woods and stones I prepared, and upon them thou wilt add.

1 Chronicles 22:3

And iron for abundance for nails for the doors of the gates, and for the junctions, David prepared; and brass for abundance no weight;

1 Chronicles 29:2

And with all my power I prepared for the house of my God, gold for gold, and silver for silver, and brass for brass, and iron for iron, woods for woods, and stones of onyx, and the fillings up, and stones of paint and of variegation, and every precious stone, and stones of white marble for multitude.

Iron » Working in, a trade

1 Samuel 13:19

And an artificer will not be found in all the land of Israel: (for the rovers said, Lest the Hebrews shall make a sword or spear:)

2 Chronicles 2:7

And now send to me a man wise to work in gold and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and cerulean purple, and knowing to engrave engravings with the wise which are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which David my father prepared.

2 Chronicles 2:14

The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in woods, in purple, in cerulean purple, and in byssus, and in crimson; and to engrave every engraving, and to invent every work of art which shall be given to him, with thy wise ones, and the wise of my lord David thy father.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax

2 Chronicles 18:10

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah will make for himself horns of iron; and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, With these shalt thou strike Aram even to finishing them.

2 Kings 6:6

And the man of God will say, Where fell it? And he will cause him to see the place. And he will cut down wood and cast there; and the iron will overflow.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

If the iron became dull and he polished not the face, and he will strengthen the forces: and wisdom will make preeminence to prosper.

Isaiah 10:34

And he cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall with a lofty one.

Iron » Made into » Yokes

Deuteronomy 28:48

And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

Jeremiah 28:13-14

Go and say to Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Thou didst break the staves of wood; but make instead of them staves of iron. For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, I gave an iron yoke upon the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel: and they served him: and also the beasts of the field I gave to him.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Weapons

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

Job 20:24

He shall flee from the weapon of iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him.

Job 41:7

Wilt thou fill his skin with pointed weapons? and his head with fish spears?

Numbers 35:16

And if with an instrument of iron he smote him, the slayer shall die; the slayer he dying. shall die.

Iron » The land of canaan abounded with

Deuteronomy 8:9

A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Iron » Made into » Implements for husbandry

2 Samuel 12:31

And the people which were in it he brought forth, and he will put at the saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron, and at axes of iron, and caused them to pass over through the brick-kiln: and thus he will do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

1 Samuel 13:20-21

And all Israel went down to the rovers, to hammer each his plough-shares, and his coulter, and his axe, and his plough-shares. And there was a notching of mouths for the plough-shares, and for the coulters, and for the three-pronged, and for the axes, and for setting the goads.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Horn

Micah 4:13

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will set thy horn iron, and thy hoofs of brass: and thou didst crush many peoples: and I devoted their plunder to Jehovah, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

1 Kings 22:11

And Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah, will make to him horns of iron: and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, With these shalt thou push Aram till thou finished them. .

2 Chronicles 18:10

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah will make for himself horns of iron; and he will say, Thus said Jehovah, With these shalt thou strike Aram even to finishing them.

Iron » Illustrative » Of severe affliction

Deuteronomy 4:20

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

Iron » Made into » Armor

Revelation 9:9

And they had coats-of-mail, as coats-of-mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war.

2 Samuel 23:7

And the man laboring in them shall be filled with iron and the wood of a spear; and in fire burning they shall burn in the dwelling.

Iron » Made into » Weapons of war

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

1 Samuel 13:19

And an artificer will not be found in all the land of Israel: (for the rovers said, Lest the Hebrews shall make a sword or spear:)

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Rods for scourging

Revelation 19:15

And out of his mouth went forth a sharp sword, that with it he might strike the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treads the winepress of the wine of the wrath and anger of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.

Revelation 2:27

And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father.

Psalm 2:9

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou break them in pieces. kings, and be instructed, ye judging the land.

Revelation 12:5

And she brought forth a son, a male, who is about to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her child was snatched up to God, and his throne.

Iron » Figurative

2 Samuel 23:7

And the man laboring in them shall be filled with iron and the wood of a spear; and in fire burning they shall burn in the dwelling.

Jeremiah 15:12

Shall iron break the iron of the north, and brass?

Iron » An article of commerce

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish thy merchant from the multitude of all riches: in silver, iron, alloy, and lead, they gave thy markets.

Ezekiel 27:19

And Dan and Javan going away gave in thy markets: making iron, cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic.

Iron » First recorded use of » Stones of

Job 28:2

Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.

Deuteronomy 8:9

A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Isaiah 60:17

Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of woods, brass, and instead of stones, iron: and I set thine overseers peace, and thy rulers justice.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Furnace

Deuteronomy 4:20

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

1 Kings 8:51

For they thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt from the midst of the furnace of iron:

Jeremiah 11:4

Which I commanded your fathers in the day of my bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying, Hear ye to my voice, and do them according to all that I shall command you: and be to me for a people, and I will be to you for God:

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Fetters

Psalm 107:16

For he broke the brazen doors, and cut off the bars of iron.

Psalm 149:8

To bind their kings in fetters, and their honorable ones in fetters of iron;

Psalm 105:18

They humbled his feet with the fetter: his soul came into iron:

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Chariot

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.

Joshua 17:16

And the sons of Joseph will say, The mountain will not suffice to us: and the chariot of iron among all the Canaanites dwelling in the land of the valley, to whom in the House of Rest and her daughters, and to whom in the valley of Jezreel.

Joshua 17:18

But the mountain shall be to thee, for it is a forest, and thou shalt cut it down; and its out-goings were to thee; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite, if the chariot of iron is to him; if he is strong.

Judges 1:19

And Jehovah will be with Judah; and be will inherit the mountain because there was no driving out the inhabitants of the valley, for to them the chariot of iron.

Iron » Illustrative » Of severe exercise of power

Revelation 2:27

And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father.

Psalm 2:9

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou break them in pieces. kings, and be instructed, ye judging the land.

Iron » Made into » Rods

Revelation 2:27

And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father.

Psalm 2:9

Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou break them in pieces. kings, and be instructed, ye judging the land.

Iron » Made into » Bars

Psalm 107:16

For he broke the brazen doors, and cut off the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and I will make straight the circles: I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and I will cut down the bars of iron:

Iron » Made into » Fetters

Psalm 149:8

To bind their kings in fetters, and their honorable ones in fetters of iron;

Psalm 105:18

They humbled his feet with the fetter: his soul came into iron:

Iron » Hardened into steel

Job 20:24

He shall flee from the weapon of iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him.

2 Samuel 22:35

Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.

Iron » Illustrative » Of strength

Daniel 2:33

The legs of iron, the feet part of iron, and part of burnt clay.

Daniel 2:40

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because that iron beats small, and makes thin all: and as iron breaks all these, it shall beat small and break.

Iron » Made into » Tools for artificers

Joshua 8:31

As Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the sons of Israel, as it was written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of stones complete; which iron was not lifted up upon them: and they will bring up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and will sacrifice peace.

1 Kings 6:7

And the house in its building was built of stone completed from the quarry: and hammers and the axe, every instrument of iron was not heard in the house in its building.

Iron » Made into » Graving tools

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah was written with a style of iron, with the nail of diamond: being graved upon the table of their heart, and to the horns of your altars.

Job 19:24

They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, forever.

Iron » Taken in war, often dedicated to God

Joshua 6:19

And all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron, it holy to Jehovah: it shall be brought to the treasury of Jehovah.

Joshua 6:24

And they burnt the city in fire and all which is in it: only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and iron they gave to the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

Iron » Made into » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:23

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Yokes

Deuteronomy 28:48

And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

Jeremiah 28:13-14

Go and say to Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Thou didst break the staves of wood; but make instead of them staves of iron. For thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, I gave an iron yoke upon the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel: and they served him: and also the beasts of the field I gave to him.

Iron » Described as » Strong and durable

Job 40:18

His bones tubes of brass; his bones as a hammered bar of iron.

Daniel 2:40

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because that iron beats small, and makes thin all: and as iron breaks all these, it shall beat small and break.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Pen

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah was written with a style of iron, with the nail of diamond: being graved upon the table of their heart, and to the horns of your altars.

Iron » Illustrative » Of a hard barren soil

Deuteronomy 28:23

And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

Iron » Made into » Nails and hinges

1 Chronicles 22:3

And iron for abundance for nails for the doors of the gates, and for the junctions, David prepared; and brass for abundance no weight;

Iron » First recorded use of » Ore of

Job 28:2

Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.

Deuteronomy 8:9

A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

Iron » First recorded use of » Used in the temple

1 Chronicles 22:3

And iron for abundance for nails for the doors of the gates, and for the junctions, David prepared; and brass for abundance no weight;

1 Chronicles 29:2

And with all my power I prepared for the house of my God, gold for gold, and silver for silver, and brass for brass, and iron for iron, woods for woods, and stones of onyx, and the fillings up, and stones of paint and of variegation, and every precious stone, and stones of white marble for multitude.

1 Chronicles 29:7

And will give for the service of the house of God, gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and silver ten thousand talents, and brass a myriad and eight thousand talents, and iron a hundred thousand talents.

Iron » Made into » Bedsteads

Deuteronomy 3:11

For only Og, king Of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaims; behold, his bed, a bed of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.

Iron » Mode of purifying, taken in war

Numbers 31:21-23

And Eleazar the priest will say to the men of war coming from the battle, This the law of instruction which Jehovah commanded Moses: Only the gold and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, Every thing which shall come through fire ye shall make pass through fire, and it was cleansed: only with the water of uncleanness shall it be purified: and all which will not come through the fire ye shall make pass through the water.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Idols

Daniel 5:4

They drank wine, and praised to the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:23

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Daniel 2:33

The legs of iron, the feet part of iron, and part of burnt clay.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Pans

Ezekiel 27:19

And Dan and Javan going away gave in thy markets: making iron, cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic.

Ezekiel 4:3

And thou, take to thee an iron pan and give it a wall of iron between thee and between the city: and prepare thy face against it, and she was in siege, and press upon her. This a sign to the house of Israel.

Iron » From the north hardest and best

Jeremiah 15:12

Shall iron break the iron of the north, and brass?

Iron » Sharpens things made of

Iron » Illustrative » (seared with,) of insensibility of conscience

Iron » Described as » Fusible

Ezekiel 22:20

The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you.

Iron » Made into » Pillars

Jeremiah 1:18

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

Iron » Admits of a high polish

Ezekiel 27:19

And Dan and Javan going away gave in thy markets: making iron, cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic.

Iron » Used from the earliest age

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also will bear Tubal Cain, sharpening every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

Iron » Of small comparative value

Isaiah 60:17

Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of woods, brass, and instead of stones, iron: and I set thine overseers peace, and thy rulers justice.

Iron » Illustrative » Of stubbornness

Iron » Of greater gravity than water

2 Kings 6:5

And one will be felling the beam, and the iron fell into the water: and he will cry out and say, Alas, my lord! and it was borrowed.

Iron » Miraculously made to swim

2 Kings 6:6

And the man of God will say, Where fell it? And he will cause him to see the place. And he will cut down wood and cast there; and the iron will overflow.

Iron » Described as » Malleable

Isaiah 2:4

And he judged between the nations, and he will decide for many peoples: and they shall beat down their swords to plough-shares and their spears to pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.

Iron » Made into » Chariots

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots of iron to him; and he pressed the sons of Israel by force twenty years.

Iron » Made into » Gates

Acts 12:10

And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Harrow

2 Samuel 12:31

And the people which were in it he brought forth, and he will put at the saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron, and at axes of iron, and caused them to pass over through the brick-kiln: and thus he will do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David will turn back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

Iron » First recorded use of » Melted

Ezekiel 22:20

The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you.

Iron » A city » A city of naphtali

Joshua 19:38

And Iron, and Migdol-El, Ho-rem, and the Mouse of Affliction, and the House of the Sun; nineteen cities and their enclosures.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Gate

Acts 12:10

And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Pillars

Jeremiah 1:18

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Vessels

Joshua 6:24

And they burnt the city in fire and all which is in it: only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and iron they gave to the treasury of the house of Jehovah.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » File

Iron » Dug out of the earth

Job 28:2

Iron shall be taken from the dust, and stone will pour out brass.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Tools

1 Kings 6:7

And the house in its building was built of stone completed from the quarry: and hammers and the axe, every instrument of iron was not heard in the house in its building.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Bedstead

Deuteronomy 3:11

For only Og, king Of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaims; behold, his bed, a bed of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.

Iron » First recorded use of

Genesis 4:22

And Zillah, she also will bear Tubal Cain, sharpening every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Threshing instruments

Amos 1:3

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back for their threshing Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.

Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Breastplate

Revelation 9:9

And they had coats-of-mail, as coats-of-mail of iron; and the voice of their wings as the voice of chariots of many horses running to war.

Metals » Mentioned in scripture » Iron

Numbers 35:16

And if with an instrument of iron he smote him, the slayer shall die; the slayer he dying. shall die.

Pillars » Made of » Iron

Jeremiah 1:18

Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.

Shekel » Used to weigh » Iron

1 Samuel 17:7

And the arrow of his spear as the beam of weavers, and the flame of his spear, six hundred shekels of iron. And he lifting up a shield went before him.

Topics on Iron

Iron Chains

Acts 12:6

And when Herod was about to bring him before, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the watch before the door kept the prison.

Iron Objects

Deuteronomy 19:5

And who shall go with his friend into the forest to cut wood, and his hand thrust out with the axe to out down the tree, and the iron slipped from the wood and found his friend, and he died; he shall flee to one of these cities, and he lived:

Iron, Figurative Use Of

Deuteronomy 4:20

And Jehovah took you and brought you forth out of the furnace of iron, out of Egypt, to be to him for a people of inheritance as this day.

Things Like Iron

Deuteronomy 28:23

And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

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