Bible Cross References
silver
Jeremiah 6:28-30
28
They are all stubborn rebels, hard as bronze and iron. They are all corrupt, going around and spreading gossip.
29
The furnace burns fiercely, but the waste metals do not melt and run off. It is useless to go on refining my people, because those who are evil are not taken away.
30
They will be called worthless dross, because I, the LORD, have rejected them."
Lamentations 4:1
Our glittering gold has grown dull; the stones of the Temple lie scattered in the streets.
Lamentations 4:2
Zion's young people were as precious to us as gold, but now they are treated like common clay pots.
Ezekiel 22:18-22
18
"Mortal man, the Israelites are of no use to me. They are like waste metal---copper, tin, iron, and lead---left over after silver has been refined in a furnace.
19
So now I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling them that they are just as useless as that. I will bring them all together in Jerusalem
20
in the same way that the ore of silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin is put in a refining furnace. My anger and rage will melt them the way fire melts ore.
21
Yes, I will gather them in Jerusalem, build a fire under them, and melt them with my anger.
22
They will be melted in Jerusalem the way silver is melted in a furnace, and then they will know that they are feeling the anger of the LORD."
Hosea 6:4
But the LORD says, "Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day.
wine
Hosea 4:18
After drinking much wine, they delight in their prostitution, preferring disgrace to honor.
2 Corinthians 2:17
We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.