This is one of the most common of metals, found generally in veins of rocks, though seldom in a metallic state, and most commonly in combination with sulphur. It was early known to the ancients, and the allusions to it in Scripture indicate that the Hebrews were well acquainted with its uses. The rocks in the neighborhood of Sinai yielded it in large quantities, and it was found in Egypt. In (Job 19:24) the allusion is supposed to be to the practice of carving inscriptions upon stone and pouring molten lead into the cavities of the letters, to render them legible and at the same time preserve them from the action of the air.
Lead
Lead is a heavy, common metal, and Scripture uses its weight. In Numbers 31:22 it is counted with gold, silver, brass, iron and tin among the goods taken in battle that had to be purified. Jeremiah watches a refiner at work and sees that even when “the lead is consumed of the fire”, the wicked are not removed from among the people (Jeremiah 6:29). In Zechariah’s vision, a woman sits in a basket, and the angel presses “the weight of lead” over its mouth to hold wickedness in (Zechariah 5:8). Zechariah 5 is a short, strange chapter, and a good one to read slowly.
4 verses
Numbers
Numbers 31:22
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Zechariah
Zechariah 5:7
And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zechariah 5:8
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884