Credit: JaneArt
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Iron pot on three short integral legs with lid and hinged handle, ca. 20cm high
Credit: Giovanni Dall'Orto
License: The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted.
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Ancient Greek iron hoe, currently exhibited in Room 12 ("private life") of the Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens).
From AmTrac: IRON
Was early known and wrought, Genesis 4:22. Moses often alludes to it. He compares the bondage in Egypt to a furnace for smelting iron, and speaks of the iron ore of Canaan, Deuteronomy 3:11; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 8:9. Many different articles and tools were anciently made of it. Immense quantities were provided for the building of the temple, 1 Chronicles 29:2, 1 Chronicles 29:7. "Iron" is used to illustrated slavery, strength, obstinacy, fortitude, affliction, etc., Deuteronomy 28:48; Job 40:18; Isaiah 48:4; Jeremiah 1:18; Ezekiel 22:18, Ezekiel 22:20; Daniel 2:33. "Iron sharpeneth iron," that is, the presence of a friend gives us more confidence and assurance. God threatens his ungrateful and perfidious people that he will make the heaven brass and the earth iron; that is, make the earth barren, and the heaven to produce no rain. Chariots of iron are chariots armed with iron spikes and scythes. See CHARIOTS
