Nails

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For the temple “David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings” (1 Chron. 22:33And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; (1 Chronicles 22:3)); but apparently gold nails were used for some parts of the interior (2 Chron. 3:99And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. (2 Chronicles 3:9)). The tent pegs were also called nails, though made most probably of hard wood, and perhaps pointed with iron. It was with a tent peg that Jael killed Sisera (Judg. 4:21-2221Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. 22And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples. (Judges 4:21‑22)). In houses in the East many articles are hung upon nails for safety, hence “a nail in a sure place,” denotes security and is figurative of the safety of anything that depends upon God (Isa. 22:23,2523And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. (Isaiah 22:23)
25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it. (Isaiah 22:25); Compare Eccl. 12:1111The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. (Ecclesiastes 12:11); Zech. 10:44Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. (Zechariah 10:4)).