24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. …
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly ; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job’s creed, or confessi…
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