Brass, or Copper

Dug out of the mountains Deuteronomy 8:9
Purified by smelting Job 28:2
CHARACTERISED BY
- Strength Job 40:18
- Hardness Leviticus 26:19
- Yellow colour Ezra 8:27
- Fusibility Ezekiel 22:18,20
- Sonorousness 1 Corinthians 13:1
Takes a high polish 2 Chronicles 4:16; Ezekiel 1:7
Inferior in value to gold and silver Isaiah 60:17; Daniel 2:32,39
Antiquity of working in Genesis 4:22
Extensive commerce in Ezekiel 27:13; Revelation 18:12
Working in, a trade Genesis 4:22; 1 Kings 7:14; 2 Chronicles 24:12; 2 Timothy 4:14
Canaan abounded in Deuteronomy 8:9; 33:25
TAKEN IN WAR
- Often in great quantities Joshua 22:8; 2 Samuel 8:8; 2 Kings 25:13-16
- Cleansed by fire Numbers 31:21-23
- Generally consecrated to God Joshua 6:19,24; 2 Samuel 8:10,11
Offerings of, for the tabernacle Exodus 38:29
Collected by David for the temple 1 Chronicles 22:3,14,16; 29:2
Offerings of, for the temple 1 Chronicles 29:6,7
Coined for money Matthew 10:9; Mark 12:41
MADE INTO
- Mirrors Exodus 38:8
- Gates Psalm 107:16; Isaiah 45:2
- Bars for gates 1 Kings 4:13
- Fetters Judges 16:21; 2 Kings 25:7
- Shields 1 Kings 14:27; 2 Chronicles 12:10
- Helmets 1 Samuel 17:5
- Greaves for the legs 1 Samuel 17:6
- Household vessels Mark 7:4
- Sacred vessels Exodus 27:3; 1 Kings 7:45
- Altars Exodus 27:2; 39:39
- Sockets for pillars Exodus 38:10,11,17
- Lavers Exodus 30:18; 1 Kings 7:38
- Pillars 1 Kings 7:15,16
- Idols Daniel 5:4; Revelation 9:20
- Instruments of music 1 Chronicles 15:19
Moses made the serpent of Numbers 21:9; 2 Kings 18:4
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Obstinate sinners Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 6:28
- The decrees of God Zechariah 6:1
- The strength and firmness of Christ Daniel 10:6; Revelation 1:15
- Strength given to saints Jeremiah 15:20; Micah 4:13
- Macedonian empire Daniel 2:39
- Extreme drought Deuteronomy 28:23
- The earth made barren Leviticus 26:19

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