51<\/strong>. from the midst of the furnace of iron<\/em> ] The bondage of Egypt is so called, Deu 4:20<\/span>. The idea is of the intense heat needed to melt iron in a furnace, and that with this the suffering of Israel might be compared. Cf. Isa 48:10<\/span>; Jer 11:14<\/span>.<\/p>\n The furnace of iron – <\/B>Egypt is so called as a place of severe trial and affliction.<\/P> <\/p>\n They be thy people; <\/B>for howsoever they may sin against thee, or suffer from men, yet still remember that they are thy peculiar people, and therefore do thou pity, and pardon, and save them. <\/P> The furnace of iron; <\/B>so called, either from the metal melted in it; or rather, from the matter of which it consisted, an iron furnace being more hot and terrible than one of brick or stone. He understands hereby their cruel bondage and painful labours. See Poole “Deu 4:20<\/span>“. <\/P> <\/p>\n For they be thy people, and thine inheritance<\/strong>,…. Whom the Lord had chosen above all people, to be a special people to him, and to be his portion and possession; see De 7:6<\/span><\/p>\n which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron<\/strong>; hard and cruel bondage in Egypt: [See comments on De 4:20]<\/span>.<\/p>\n (51-53) For they be thy people.<\/strong>This pleading with God by His deliverance of the people from Egypt, and by His promise to Moses to make them His inheritance (see Exo. 19:5<\/span>; Deu. 9:26<\/span>; Deu. 9:29<\/span>; Deu. 14:2<\/span>), although especially suggested by the last petition for deliverance from captivity, may be held to apply to the whole of Solomons prayer. It implies the belief not only that the declared purpose of God cannot fail, but that, even for the manifestation of His glory to man, it must needs be visibly fulfilled before the eyes of the world. This same conviction breathes in many of the utterances of Moses for Israel (see Exo. 32:12-13<\/span>; Num. 14:13-14<\/span>); it is expressed in the Help us, O Lord, and deliver us for Thy names sake, of Psa. 79:9-10<\/span>, or the Defer not for Thine own sake, O my God of Dan. 9:19<\/span> : it is declared on the part, of the Lord again and again in Eze. 20:9<\/span>; Eze. 20:14<\/span>; Eze. 20:22<\/span>, I wrought for my names sake. It may, indeed, seem to jar upon our fuller conception of the infinite majesty of God, incapable of being augmented or lessened, and of the infinite love which does all for the sake of His creatures. Yet it is not wholly unlike our Lords prayer (Joh. 12:28<\/span>), Father, glorify thy name, or the Apostolic declarations of the great purpose of redemption, as designed for the praise of Gods glory (Eph. 1:6<\/span>; Eph. 1:12<\/span>; Eph. 1:14<\/span>), and of all Christian life as commanded to do all to the glory of God (1Co. 10:31<\/span>). In some respects it is like the pleading with our Lord, in the Litanies of the Church in all ages, by all the various acts of His redemption, and the prayer of the old Latin hymn<\/p>\n Redemisti crucem passus; But, indeed, all that might seem to us strange or unworthy in such prayers vanishes at once, when we consider that the knowledge of God in His self-manifestation is the highest happiness of man; on which, indeed, depend all depth and harmony of human knowledge, and all dignity and purity of human life. Hence, in the Lords Prayer, the three petitions for Gods glory, preceding all special petitions for our own needs, are really prayers for the highest blessing of all mankind. Gods care for His glory is not for His own sake, but for ours.<\/p>\n 51<\/strong>. <\/strong> Furnace of iron <\/strong> Metaphorical description of the bitter bondage and inhuman persecutions of Egypt. Compare marginal references.<\/p>\n “<\/strong> For they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron,” <\/p>\n Here the emphasis is not on the land as their inheritance (1Ki 8:34<\/span>; 1Ki 8:36<\/span>; 1Ki 8:40<\/span>) but on the people themselves as His inheritance (Exo 34:9<\/span>; Deu 32:9<\/span>), the people whom He had brought forth from Egypt (Exo 20:2<\/span>; Exo 32:11<\/span>; Lev 25:42<\/span>; Lev 25:55<\/span>; Lev 26:45<\/span>; Deu 9:12<\/span>; Deu 9:26<\/span>; compare 1Ki 4:20<\/span>), ‘from the midst of the furnace of iron’ (Deu 4:20<\/span>; Jer 11:4<\/span>). <\/p>\n “For they are your people and your inheritance.”<\/strong> YHWH had proved it by delivering them and declaring His great favour towards them, both in the covenant and in giving them the land. They were His chosen race, His holy nation, His treasured possession (Exo 19:5-6<\/span>). <\/p>\n 1Ki 8:51 For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:<\/p>\n Ver. 51. For they be thy people.<\/strong> ] Culled and called out of the rest of the world. Thou hast avouched them for thine; and they have avouched thee for their God. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the midst of the furnace of iron.<\/strong> ] Where they were grievously afflicted, and by those afflictions melted and made more malleable.<\/p>\n furnace = furnace for the smelting of iron; not made of iron. Compare Gen 15:17. <\/p>\n thy people: 1Ki 8:53, Exo 32:11, Exo 32:12, Num 14:13-19, Deu 9:26-29, 2Ch 6:39, Neh 1:10, Isa 63:16-18, Isa 64:9, Jer 51:19 <\/p>\n the furnace: Deu 4:20, Jer 11:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Psa 28:9 – bless Dan 9:15 – that hast<\/p>\n For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: 51. from the midst of the furnace of iron ] The bondage of Egypt is so called, Deu 4:20. 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