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As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
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A Furnace of Judgment
Commentators unanimously explain that God is gathering the people into Jerusalem as a metallurgist gathers various metals into a furnace. This gathering is not for their safety, as they might have hoped, but for a deliberate act of judgment. The city itself becomes the crucible, and God's anger is the fire that will melt them down.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the people will be tried and purged (Ezekiel 22:18).
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19th Century
Anglican
I will leave you there.— Better, I will cast you in.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace
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