'Metal' in the Bible

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

Then the Lord said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet [for public display] and write on it in ordinary characters: Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

So the craftsman encourages the smelter,And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;And he fastens it with nails,So that it will not totter.

See, none of them exist, and their deeds are nothing. Their metal images are only wind and confusion.'"

They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—those who trust in idolsand say to metal-plated images:You are our gods!

Who makes a god or casts a metal imagefor no profit?

A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

I told you these things long ago; I announced them to you before they happened so that you couldn't say, "My idol did them; my carved image or metal idol ordained them.'