Bible Dictionary: Silver: Refining of

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Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
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Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
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Proverbs 26:23
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
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Ezekiel 22:18-22
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
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Jeremiah 6:29,30
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
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Malachi 3:3
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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Library

A Greater than Solomon
... But when I am strengthened to look again I see ingots of silver refining in the
white heat, and I note that the heat is tempered to the last degree of nicety. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/a greater than solomon.htm

Now Let us Shew Briefly, if You Will, that These Things were ...
... For He doth come as the fire of a furnace and as fuller's soap: and He shall sit,
refining and purifying as it were gold and silver." But that thou mayest know ...
/.../34 now let us shew.htm

After the Scripture.
... as silver." Surely the Lord would not cast the Jews in a pot of melted silver. The
preposition is one of comparison; as in 1 Peter 1:17 the refining of Israel ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/viii after the scripture.htm

The Gospel Day Seen in Prophecy.
... 3:2, 3. In that day there shall be a fountain of cleansing, or a fire of refining,
when hearts shall be made pure as gold and silver is refined and made pure. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /the gospel day seen in.htm

Why all Things Work for Good
... "In faithfullness thou hast addicted me" (Psalm 119:75). He is sifting and refining
us as silver (Psalm 66:10). God is an immutable Friend. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a divine cordial/why all things work for.htm

Footnotes
... In refining, the silver was mixed with lead and the mass, fused in the furnace,
had a current of air turned upon it; the lead oxidising acted as a flux ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/footnotes.htm

Mercy's Master Motive
... mode of refining, but after all it is only a means; the real refining fire is ... shall
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver." Here suffering ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 18 1872/mercys master motive.htm

Hiram, the Inspired Artificer
... workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in ... And
what refining influences may not be silently absorbed into the nature by the ...
/.../milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/hiram the inspired artificer.htm

The Best of Masters
... get but little gold and silver such as this world calls precious, but he gets a
gold and a silver that shall ne'er be melted in the last refining fire, that ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/the best of masters.htm

The True Gold and Its Testing
... very familiar metaphor of the furnace for gold, and the fining-pot for silver, only
remember ... of assaying them, and the other is for the purpose of refining them ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the true gold and its.htm

Subtopics

Silver

Silver for Ornamentation of, and in the Manufacture of, the Utensils for the Tabernacle

Silver of Good Rulers

Silver of Saints Purified by Affliction

Silver of the Medo-Persian Kingdom

Silver of the Temple

Silver of the Tongue of the Just

Silver of the Words of the Lord

Silver used As Money from the Earliest Times

Silver used for Money

Silver: (Dross of) of the Wicked