for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.

Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, “This is what the Lord says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.’”

As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”

The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.

and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed.

“I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.

in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.”

With all my resources I have provided for the temple of my God—gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble—all of these in large quantities.

They gave toward the work on the temple of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

“Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.

whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.

Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, “This is what the Lord says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.’”

The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who carried out the work required for the temple of the Lord. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord’s temple, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the temple.

that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!

Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.

Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.

to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron,

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.