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But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
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The Furnace of Affliction
Commentators explain that the phrase 'iron furnace' is a powerful metaphor for the intense cruelty and suffering the Israelites endured in Egypt. Just as a furnace is used to purify precious metals by removing dross, God used this severe trial to refine His people before delivering them.
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Deuteronomy
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace The allusio…
Presbyterian
The power and love of God toward Israel are presented here as the basis and reason for a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although ther…
