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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Or more probably COPPER)

Smelted

• 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.
• Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

A mineral of Canaan

• 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.
• Joshua 22:8 saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

Of Syria

• 2 Samuel 8:8 And from Betah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze.

Tyrians traded in

• Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.

Abundance of, for the temple

• 1 Kings 7:47 Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
• 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.

Articles made of

Altar, vessels, and other articles of the tabernacle and temple

• Exodus 38:28–31 With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them. The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels. He used it to make the bases for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar and its bronze grating…
• 1 Kings 7:14–47 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work. He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cub…
• Ezra 8:27 20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

Cymbals

• 1 Chronicles 15:19 The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.

Trumpets

• 1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

Armor

• 1 Samuel 17:5–6 and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels, and he had armor of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
• 2 Chronicles 12:10 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

Bows, see Bows

Fetters

• Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
• 2 Kings 25:7 And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Gates

• 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.

Bars

• 1 Kings 4:13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

Idols

• Daniel 5:4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
• Revelation 9:20 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

Mirrors

• Exodus 38:8 Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Household vessels

• Mark 7:4 And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.

Money

• Matthew 10:9 Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
• Mark 12:41 As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.

Workers in: Tubal-cain

• 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.

Hiram

• 1 Kings 7:14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.

Alexander

• 2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

See Brazier

See Copper

See Molding

Figurative

• Leviticus 26:19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
• Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
• Isaiah 48:4 For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
• 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.
• Ezekiel 1:7 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.
• Daniel 2:32 The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,
• Daniel 2:39 But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.
• Daniel 7:19 Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others — extremely terrifying — devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
• Daniel 10:6 His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
• Zechariah 6:1 And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains — mountains of bronze.