Iron
74 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
58 sections
- (Seared With) Insensibility of Conscience
- A City of Naphtali
- Admits of a High Polish
- An Article of Commerce
- Dug out of the Earth
- Figurative
- First Recorded Use of
- First Recorded Use of Ax
- First Recorded Use of Bedstead
- First Recorded Use of Breastplate
- First Recorded Use of Chariot
- First Recorded Use of Fetters
- First Recorded Use of File
- First Recorded Use of Furnace
- First Recorded Use of Gate
- First Recorded Use of Harrow
- First Recorded Use of Horn
- First Recorded Use of Idols
- First Recorded Use of Melted
- First Recorded Use of Ore of
- First Recorded Use of Pans
- First Recorded Use of Pen
- First Recorded Use of Pillars
- First Recorded Use of Rods for Scourging
- First Recorded Use of Stones of
- First Recorded Use of Threshing Instruments
- First Recorded Use of Tools
- First Recorded Use of Used in the Temple
- First Recorded Use of Vessels
- First Recorded Use of Weapons
- First Recorded Use of Yokes
- from the North Hardest and Best
- Fusible
- Great Quantity of, Provided for the Temple
- Hardened Into Steel
- Made Into: Armour
- Made Into: Bars
- Made Into: Bedsteads
- Made Into: Chariots
- Made Into: Fetters
- Made Into: Gates
- Made Into: Graving Tools
- Made Into: Idols
- Made Into: Implements for Husbandry
- Made Into: Nails and Hinges
- Made Into: Pillars
- Made Into: Rods
- Made Into: Tools for Artificers
- Made Into: Weapons of War
- Made Into: Yokes
- Malleable
- Miraculously Made to Swim
- Mode of Purifying, Taken in War
- Sharpens Things Made of
- Strong and Durable
- Taken in War, often Dedicated to God
- The Land of Canaan Abounded With
- Working In, a Trade
(Seared With) Insensibility of Conscience
- 1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
A City of Naphtali
- Joshua 19:38 Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.
Admits of a High Polish
- Ezekiel 27:19 and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
An Article of Commerce
- Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
- Ezekiel 27:19 and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
- Revelation 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
Dug out of the Earth
- Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
Figurative
- 2 Samuel 23:7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
- Jeremiah 15:12 Can anyone smash iron — iron from the north — or bronze?
- 1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
First Recorded Use of
- Genesis 4:22 And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
First Recorded Use of Ax
- 2 Kings 6:6 “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
- 2 Chronicles 18:10 Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
- Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
- Isaiah 10:34 He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
First Recorded Use of Bedstead
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
First Recorded Use of Breastplate
- Revelation 9:9 They also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
First Recorded Use of Chariot
- Joshua 17:16 “The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”
- Joshua 17:18 because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”
- Judges 1:19 The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
- Judges 4:3 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
First Recorded Use of Fetters
- Psalm 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- Psalm 107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- Psalm 107:16 For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
- Psalm 149:8 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
First Recorded Use of File
- Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
First Recorded Use of Furnace
- Deuteronomy 4:20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
- 1 Kings 8:51 For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
- Jeremiah 11:4 which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
First Recorded Use of Gate
- Acts 12:10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.
First Recorded Use of Harrow
- 2 Samuel 12:31 David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
First Recorded Use of Horn
- 1 Kings 22:11 Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
- 2 Chronicles 18:10 Now Zedekiah son of Chenaanah had made for himself iron horns and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you shall gore the Arameans until they are finished off.’”
- Micah 4:13 Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
First Recorded Use of Idols
- Daniel 2:33 its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.
- Daniel 5:4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, …
First Recorded Use of Melted
- Ezekiel 22:20 Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
First Recorded Use of Ore of
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
First Recorded Use of Pans
- Ezekiel 4:3 Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 27:19 and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.
First Recorded Use of Pen
- Job 19:1 Then Job answered:
- Job 24:1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- Jeremiah 17:1 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
First Recorded Use of Pillars
- Jeremiah 1:18 Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land— against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
First Recorded Use of Rods for Scourging
- Psalm 2:9 You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- Revelation 2:27 He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery — just as I have received authority from My Father.
- Revelation 12:5 And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
- Revelation 19:15 And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
First Recorded Use of Stones of
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
- Isaiah 60:17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
First Recorded Use of Threshing Instruments
- Amos 1:3 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
First Recorded Use of Tools
- 1 Kings 6:7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
First Recorded Use of Used in the Temple
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed
- 1 Chronicles 29:2 Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God — gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, …
- 1 Chronicles 29:7 Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
First Recorded Use of Vessels
- Joshua 6:24 Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
First Recorded Use of Weapons
- Numbers 35:16 If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- 1 Samuel 17:7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
- Job 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
- Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
First Recorded Use of Yokes
- Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Jeremiah 28:13–14 “Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’ …
from the North Hardest and Best
- Jeremiah 15:12 Can anyone smash iron — iron from the north — or bronze?
Fusible
- Ezekiel 22:20 Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you.
Great Quantity of, Provided for the Temple
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed
- 1 Chronicles 22:14 Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD— 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.
- 1 Chronicles 22:16 in gold and silver, bronze and iron— craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:2 Now with all my ability I have made provision for the house of my God — gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, …
Hardened Into Steel
- 2 Samuel 22:35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
- Job 20:24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
Made Into: Armour
- 2 Samuel 23:7 The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
- Revelation 9:9 They also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
Made Into: Bars
- Psalm 107:16 For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
- Isaiah 45:2 “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
Made Into: Bedsteads
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Made Into: Chariots
- Judges 4:3 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
Made Into: Fetters
- Psalm 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- Psalm 149:8 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
Made Into: Gates
- Acts 12:10 They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.
Made Into: Graving Tools
- Job 19:24 by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
- Jeremiah 17:1 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
Made Into: Idols
- Daniel 5:4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, …
Made Into: Implements for Husbandry
- 1 Samuel 13:20–21 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles. …
- 2 Samuel 12:31 David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Made Into: Nails and Hinges
- 1 Chronicles 22:3 David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed
Made Into: Pillars
- Jeremiah 1:18 Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land— against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Made Into: Rods
- Psalm 2:9 You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
- Revelation 2:27 He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery — just as I have received authority from My Father.
Made Into: Tools for Artificers
- Joshua 8:31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered …
- 1 Kings 6:7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
Made Into: Weapons of War
- 1 Samuel 13:19 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
- 1 Samuel 17:7 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
Made Into: Yokes
- Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Jeremiah 28:13–14 “Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’ …
Malleable
- Isaiah 2:4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
Miraculously Made to Swim
- 2 Kings 6:6 “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
Mode of Purifying, Taken in War
- Numbers 31:21–23 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: …
Sharpens Things Made of
- Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Strong and Durable
- Job 40:18 His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
- Daniel 2:40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.
Taken in War, often Dedicated to God
- Joshua 6:19 For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”
- Joshua 6:24 Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
The Land of Canaan Abounded With
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
- Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
Working In, a Trade
- 1 Samuel 13:19 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.