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Wide ancient open-air bronze foundry on Jordan valley clay soil, workmen carefully pour glowing molten bronze from small crucible into clay-ground molds using wooden-handled tongs. Realistic primitive charcoal furnaces, woven bellows, dusk smoke, no modern blast furnace or casting machinery, distant valley river.
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2 Chronicles 4:17

Casting in the Jordan Plain

Bronze and Gold for the House · 2 Chronicles 4

Story guide: Workers cast bronze in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan.

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17In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground, between Sukkoth and Zeredah.

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