Jer 11:4 | TNotes | STEP | 11:4 The Egyptians knew how to smelt iron, but the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt was also a metaphor for the Israelites’ slavery in that land from which the Lord had rescued them. God had also promised to be uniquely theirs if they would be uniquely his (Exod 6:7 ).

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‏ Jeremiah 11:4

11:4 ^a The Egyptians knew how to smelt iron, but the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt was also a metaphor for the Israelites’ slavery in that land from which the Lord had rescued them. God had also promised to be uniquely theirs if they would be uniquely his (Exod 6:7 ^b).