Isaiah 48:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Hebrews 12:10-11
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. …
Psalms 66:10
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Furnace Refining Silver

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-15)

The deliverance of God’s people out of their captivity in Babylon was a thing upon many accounts so improbable that there was need of line upon line for the encouragement of the faith and hope of God’s people concerning it. Two things were discouraging to them—their own unworthiness that God should do it for them and the many difficulties in the thing itself; now, in these verses, both these disco…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. (See on Is 1:25). with silver--rather, “for silver.” I sought by affliction to purify thee, but thou wast not as silver obtained by melting, but as dross [Gesenius]. Thy repentance is not complete: thou art not yet as refined silver. Rosenmuller explains, “not as silver,” not with the intense heat needed to melt silver (it being harder to melt than gold), that is, not with the most extreme sev…