Isaiah 48:10
Look, I refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction. 1
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In The King James Version
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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Cross References
1 Kings 8:51They are your people whom you have chosen, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.
Job 28:1Surely there is a mine for silver, 1 a place where they refine gold. 1
Proverbs 17:3The crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, 1 but Yahweh refines hearts. 1
Jeremiah 9:7Yahweh of hosts says this, “See, I am about to refine them and test them, 1 for what else can I do, because of what my people have done? 1
Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the leftovers of bronze and tin, and iron and lead in the midst of you. They will be like the dross of silver in your furnace.
Zechariah 13:9I will bring that third through the fire 1 and refine them as silver is refined; 1 I will test them as gold is tested. 1 They will call on my name, 1 and I will answer them and say, 1 'This is my people!' 1 and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God!'”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:10-16
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath… Read the whole commentary →