Bible Dictionary: Brass: Figurative

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Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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Deuteronomy 33:25
Your shoes shall be iron and brass; and as your days, so shall your strength be.
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Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
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Jeremiah 1:18
For, behold, I have made you this day a defended city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
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Ezekiel 1:7
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass.
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Daniel 2:32,39
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
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Daniel 7:19
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
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Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
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Zechariah 6:1
And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
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Revelation 1:15
And his feet like to fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
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The Figurative Language of Scripture.
... of this class of expositors, the maiming of the body is figurative language, and ...
the four chariots coming out from between two mountains of brass with horses ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxxv the figurative language.htm

Whether Sufficient Reason Can be Assigned for the Ceremonies ...
... There was also a figurative reason for these precepts ... Wherefore the Lord commanded
the altar of holocausts to be made of brass, and to be conspicuous to all the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sufficient reason can be.htm

Note to the Following Treatise 1. The Following Letter
... as, in order that there may be a brazen seal, there must be brass, and in ... Three Persons
in the Trinity, is so; and I think that this expression is figurative. ...
/.../note to the following treatise.htm

Gifts no Certain Evidence of Grace.
... of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a ... saints are
represented as written in Heaven, This language is figurative, accommodated to ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xiv gifts no certain.htm

The Second Commandment
... incense to it, Hezekiah defaced, and called it Nehushtan, mere brass; and God ... his
power, yet it is absurd, from such metaphors and figurative expressions, to ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 2 the second commandment.htm

Greek Plagiarism from the Hebrews.
... and silver in the case of those who are helpers; and steel and brass in the ... to the
descent of the Lord into the flesh he also applies the figurative term sleep ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xiv greek plagiarism from the.htm

The Angels of the Seven Churches.
... eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if ... to construct
a system of ecclesiastical polity from such a highly-figurative portion of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter iv the angels of.htm

The Potter and the Clay
... Some indeed content themselves with a figurative interpretation; but unless they
are made to ... I should only be like a sounding brass for any saving purpose, or ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the potter and the clay.htm

The Teacher Come from God and the Teacher from Jerusalem - Jesus ...
... that Jesus pointed to repentance, as that which would give him the figurative standing
of ... Targum on the passage: And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter vi the teacher come.htm

On Reconciling Religious Dissensions among Christians
... that of the oak, and by defenses more impregnable than those of triple brass. ... things
hard to be understood." (2 Peter 3:16.) The figurative expressions and ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 1/oration v on reconciling religious.htm

Subtopics

Brass

Brass of Syria

Brass: A Mineral of Canaan

Brass: Abundance of, for the Temple

Brass: Alexander

Brass: Articles Made of Altar, Vessels, and Other Articles of the Tabernacle and Temple

Brass: Articles Made of Armor

Brass: Articles Made of Bars

Brass: Articles Made of Cymbals

Brass: Articles Made of Fetters

Brass: Articles Made of Gates