OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 8:51

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(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);

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Verse 51. Iron. This expression is often used to denote the rigour of the Egyptian bondage. Deuteronomy 4:20. Thus Homer says, that Mars was shut up for thirteen months in a barrel (or prison) of brass. Iliad E.

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