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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 15:12 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 15:12 |
Strong Concordance |
Shall iron [01270] break [07489] the northern [06828] iron [01270] and the steel [05178]? |
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King James |
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
steel--rather, brass or copper, which mixed with "iron" (by the Chalybes near the Euxine Pontus, far north of Palestine), formed the hardest metal, like our steel. Can the Jews, hardy like common iron though they be, break the still hardier Chaldees of the north (Jer 1:14), who resemble the Chalybian iron hardened with copper? Certainly not [CALVIN]. HENDERSON translates. "Can one break iron, (even) the northern iron, and brass," on the ground that English Version makes ordinary iron not so hard as brass. But it is not brass, but a particular mixture of iron and brass, which is represented as harder than common iron, which was probably then of inferior texture, owing to ignorance of modern modes of preparation. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The steel - "brass," i. e., bronze. By the "iron" is meant Jeremiah's intercession; but this cannot alter the divine purpose to send Judah into exile, which is firm as steel and brass. For "brass" see Exo 25:3 note. The alloy of copper and zinc now called brass was entirely unknown to the ancients. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The northern iron - As the northern iron and steel is the hardest, and no iron could break that, so God having edged and hardened their enemies, the Chaldeans, all opposition to them would signify nothing. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? - Shall our weak forces be able to oppose and overcome the powers of the Chaldeans? נחשת nechasheth, which we here translate steel, property signifies brass or copper united with tin, which gives it much hardness, and enables it to bear a good edge. |
14 Then the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, Out of the north [06828] an evil [07451] shall break forth [06605] upon all the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776].
3 And this is the offering [08641] which ye shall take [03947] of them; gold [02091], and silver [03701], and brass [05178],