Refining
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- (The process of eliminating impurities by fire)
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Of gold
1 Chr 28:18
18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 28:18 -
Of silver
1 Chr 29:4
4 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
1 Chronicles 29:4 -
Of wine
Isa 25:6
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah 25:6 - Figurative
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Of the corrective judgments of God
Isa 1:25; 48:10; Jer 9:7; Zech 13:9; Mal 3:2, 3
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isaiah 1:2510 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Isaiah 48:107 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 9:79 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Zechariah 13:92 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
Malachi 3:23 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Malachi 3:3 -
Of the purity of the word of God
Ps 18:30; 119:140
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Psalms 18:30140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
Psalms 119:140
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
