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the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith 

 they ministered, took they away ; the two pillars, one sea, and the 

 .12 brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon 

 had made in the house of the Lord ; the brass oi all these vessels 

 was without weight. And concerning the pillars, the height 

 of one pillar was 18 cubits, and a fillet of 12 cubits did compass 

 it, and the thickness thereof was 4 fingers, it was hollow : 

 and a chapiter of brass was upon it ; and the height of one 

 chapiter was 5 cubits, with network and pomegranates upon 

 the chapiters round about ; all of brass" (Jer. Hi, 17, 18, 20, 22 ; 

 see likewise parallel passage in II Kings xxv, 13, 14, 16, 17.) 



Copper in Eelation to Idolatry. 



B.C. circum 726. Hezekiah did that which was right in the 

 sight of the Lord. " He removed the high places, and break 

 the images (margin : statues), and cut down the groves, and break 

 in pieces the brasen (copper) serpent which Moses had made, 

 for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense 

 to it. and he called it nehushtan (i.e., a piece of copper)." 

 (ii Kings xviii, 4.) 



B.C. circum 538. At the great feast which Belshazzar gave to 

 1,000 of his lords, the golden vessels taken from the Temple were 

 brought in, and they drank wine in them. And they praised 

 the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, etc. (Dan. v, 4, 23.) 



Copper Prophetically. 



B.C. 1451. Before his death Moses blessed each of the tribes 

 of the children of Israel separately. Of Asher he said, Let 

 Asher be blessed with children, let him be acceptable to his 

 brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil ; " thy shoes shall be 

 iron and brass." (Deut. xxxiii, 25.) 



B.C. circum 712. " Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to 

 Cyrus,whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before 

 him. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places 

 straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in 

 sunder the bars of iron." (Is. xlv, 2.)* 



B.C. 519. In a vision Zechariah " lifted up his eyes and 

 looked, and behold there came four chariots from between two 

 mountains, and the mountains were brass" (Zech. vi, 1.) 



* See also ref. to brass, Numb, xxi, 9 ; Job xli, 27 ; Psa. cvii, 16 ; 

 Ezek. ix, 2 ; xxiv, 11 ; Dan. ii, 32, etc. ; iv, 15, 23 ; vii, 19 ; x, 6. 



