Ezekiel 22:18

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.

Cross References

Psalm 119:119

All the wicked of the earth thou dost count as dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tries hearts.

Proverbs 25:4

Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

Isaiah 31:9

His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Ezekiel 22:17

And the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 22:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 22:20

As men gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire upon it in order to melt it; so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

Daniel 3:6

and whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.”