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    "figure_name": "Furnace and Crucible Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Furnace, kiln, crucible, heated-vessel, and fire-chamber imagery",
    "alternate_names": "Furnace imagery; crucible imagery; kiln imagery; furnace of affliction imagery",
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    "reader_category": "Testing and judgment / Furnace imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Furnace and crucible imagery uses intense heat, enclosed fire, and smelting vessels to describe affliction, testing, judgment, oppression, and the terrifying force of divine wrath.",
    "technical_definition": "A heat-and-testing motif in which furnace or crucible language represents refining pressure, covenant affliction, imperial persecution, eschatological judgment, or the concentrated intensity of fire.",
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      "reference": "Gen. 15:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp",
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      "reference": "Exod. 9:8",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace",
      "explanation": "Furnace ashes become the material sign connected to plague judgment on Egypt.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Deut. 4:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "brought you forth out of the iron furnace",
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      "reference": "1 Kgs. 8:51",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron",
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      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Prov. 17:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts",
      "explanation": "The furnace functions as an analogy for divine testing of human hearts.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized testing/corruption/idolatry/judgment imagery review",
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      "reference": "Isa. 48:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction",
      "explanation": "Affliction is pictured as furnace-like pressure under God’s sovereign purpose.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 22:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "as they gather silver... into the midst of the furnace",
      "explanation": "The furnace represents concentrated judgment against a corrupt city.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Dan. 3:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a burning fiery furnace",
      "explanation": "The furnace embodies coercive imperial wrath against faithful refusal to worship the image.",
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      "reference": "Matt. 13:42",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "cast them into a furnace of fire",
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      "reference": "Rev. 9:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace",
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