steel?

[prophecynut]

The KJB has "steel" instead of bronze or brass in the following verses:

2 Sam. 22:35
Job 20:24
Psalm 18:34
Jer 15:12

Are there any sound explanations why steel was used when it was not made in the OT and the Hebrew word for steel is bronze?

 

[prophecynut]

Just as I thought, no one able to provide an answer.
Time to add it to the list of stupid KJB mistakes.

 

[RTG]

Kudos to the nut!

 

[bmerr]

P-nut,

bmerr here. No reason that I know of, except for the fact that the KJ translators were human like the rest of us. I don't think that's reason enough to disparage one of the few reliable translations of the Scriptures, though.

In Christ,

bmerr