Shall iron break the northern iron, and the steel] Or, Can any break iron. Can such iron be broken? Shall any power be able to hinder the execution of my word and purpose; which is stronger then iron, even the hardest and toughest of it, and then steel? Chap. 23. 29. Or, Though this people be as hard and tough as iron; Isaiah 48:4. Chap. 6. 28. yet will I make thee as steel, that they may not prevail against thee. Chap. 1. 18, 19. Vers. 20. or, yet they shall not be able to withstand the Chaldean forces, which I shall send in against them. Vers. 8. northern iron] Out of which parts the hardest and toughest iron cometh: and from which should the Chaldeans forces come. Chap. 4. 6. and the steel] Or, or steel. as Genesis 2:6. Exodus 21:15.