Lexicon :: Strong's H1270 - barzel

Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain’s sister was Naamah.

“I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

“The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead ​— ​

“If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

“(Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed[fn] was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13 ¹/₂ feet long and 6 feet wide by a standard measure.[fn])

“But the LORD selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.

“a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.

“If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

“Build an altar of stones there to the LORD your God ​— ​do not use any iron tool on them.

“The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

“you will serve your enemies that the LORD will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,

and your strength last as long as you live.

“For all the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, are dedicated to the LORD and must go into the LORD’s treasury.”

They burned the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

just as Moses the LORD’s servant 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. Then they offered burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

But the descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its surrounding villages and in the Jezreel Valley.”

“because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

he said, “Return to your homes with great wealth: a huge number of cattle, and silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a large quantity of clothing. Share the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

The LORD was with Judah and enabled them to take possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the people who were living in the plain because those people had iron chariots.

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.

Sisera summoned all his nine hundred iron chariots and all the troops who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

His spear shaft was like a weaver’s beam, and the iron point of his spear weighed fifteen pounds.[fn] In addition, a shield-bearer was walking in front of him.

He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

The man who touches them

must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear.

They will be completely burned up on the spot.

The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

For they are your people and your inheritance;

you brought them out of Egypt,

out of the middle of an iron furnace.

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You will gore the Arameans with these until they are finished off.’ ”

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Oh, my master, it was borrowed! ”

He brought out the people who were in it and put them to work with saws,[fn] iron picks, and axes.[fn] David did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

David supplied a great deal of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the fittings, together with an immeasurable quantity of bronze,

“Notice I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD ​— ​3,775 tons of gold, 37,750 tons of silver,[fn] and bronze and iron that can’t be weighed because there is so much of it. I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more to them.

“in gold, silver, bronze, and iron ​— ​beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”

“So to the best of my ability I’ve 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, stones for mounting,[fn] antimony,[fn] stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.

For the service of God’s house they gave 185 tons[fn] of gold and 10,000 gold coins,[fn] 375 tons[fn] of silver, 675 tons[fn] of bronze, and 4,000 tons[fn] of iron.

Therefore, send me an artisan who is skilled in engraving to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with the artisans who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, appointed by my father David.

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan. His father is a man of Tyre. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, with purple, blue, crimson yarn, and fine linen. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and to execute any design that may be given him. I have sent him to be with your artisans and the artisans of my lord, your father David.

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the LORD says: You will gore the Arameans with these until they are finished off.”

Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those in charge of the labor on the LORD’s temple, who were hiring stonecutters and carpenters to renovate the LORD’s temple, also blacksmiths and coppersmiths to repair the LORD’s temple.

or were inscribed in stone forever

by an iron stylus and lead!

If he flees from an iron weapon,

an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.

Iron is taken from the ground,

and copper is smelted from ore.

His bones are bronze tubes;

his limbs are like iron rods.

He regards iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

“You will break them with an iron scepter;

you will shatter them like pottery.”

They hurt his feet with shackles;

his neck was put in an iron collar.

Others sat in darkness and gloom[fn] —

prisoners in cruel chains —

For he has broken down the bronze gates

and cut through the iron bars.

binding their kings with chains

and their dignitaries with iron shackles,

Iron sharpens iron,

and one person sharpens another.[fn]