Job 28:1
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Job’s Discourse on Wisdom
28 “Surely there is a mine for silver,
And a place where gold is refined.
1 Peter 1:7
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7 that (A)the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though (B)it is tested by fire, (C)may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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Malachi 3:2-3
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2 “But who can endure (A)the day of His coming?
And (B)who can stand when He appears?
For (C)He is like a refiner’s fire
And like launderers’ soap.
3 (D)He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And [a]purge them as gold and silver,
That they may (E)offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.
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- Malachi 3:3 Or refine
Isaiah 48:10
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10 Behold, (A)I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested you in the (B)furnace of affliction.
Proverbs 17:3
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3 The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
(A)But the Lord tests the hearts.
Zechariah 13:9
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9 I will bring the one-third (A)through the fire,
Will (B)refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
(D)I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
Proverbs 27:21
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21 (A)The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
And a man is valued by what others say of him.
Psalm 12:6
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6 The words of the Lord are (A)pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
1 Chronicles 29:2-5
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2 Now for the house of my God I have prepared with all my might: gold for things to be made of gold, silver for things of silver, bronze for things of bronze, iron for things of iron, wood for things of wood, (A)onyx stones, stones to be set, glistening stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble slabs in abundance. 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver: 4 three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of (B)Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses; 5 the gold for things of gold and the silver for things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be done by the hands of craftsmen. Who then is (C)willing to [a]consecrate himself this day to the Lord?”
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- 1 Chronicles 29:5 Lit. fill his hand
1 Kings 10:21
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21 (A)All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
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1 Kings 7:48-50
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48 Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the Lord: (A)the altar of gold, and (B)the table of gold on which was (C)the showbread; 49 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; 50 the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the [a]censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
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- 1 Kings 7:50 firepans
Genesis 24:22
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22 So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden (A)nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,
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Genesis 23:15
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15 “My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred (A)shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead.”
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Genesis 2:11-12
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11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts (A)the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. (B)Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
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