"... Use of bronze as a figure of speech is concentrated in the Old Testament poetry and prophets (two-thirds of the uses in these books are figurative) and the book of Revelation. When used figuratively, bronze often connotes strength, as seen in Job’s questions “Do I have strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?” (Job 6:12), or when describing Leviathan, who cannot be fettered, it is said that “iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood” (Job 41:27). In Jeremiah’s call to service he is told that God has “made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land” (Jeremiah 1:18). Hard and smooth, in judgment the ground will be made infertile: “I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze” (Leviticus 26:19; Compare Deuteronomy 28:23; Job 37:18). Polished and shiny, bronze was used for mirrors in the ancient world and is associated with shining and radiance. Bronze as associated with radiance is found in Revelation 1:15: “His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters”. Ezekiel’s heavenly creatures had legs that “gleamed liked burnished bronze” (Ezekiel 1:7), and later Ezekiel encountered a man whose “face shone liked polished bronze” (Ezekiel 40:3) ..."