Bible Verses About Metals

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.

Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.

Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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.

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

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.

20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

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.