Parable of Tares

As I was talking to my manager Tricia over the dinner in a recent business trip to New Jersey about weeping and knashing of teeth, she showed be Bible verses in Matthew 13 and told me that these verses talked of the judgement of the unsaved people.

Matthew 13:37-43

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one]; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

I looked up in Blue Letter Bible on the word usage of furnace in the Bible and found the following:

Nave's Topical Bible

FURNACE

Use of

For refining silver

Eze 22:22; Mal 3:3

For refining gold

Pro 17:3

For melting lead and tin

Eze 22:20

For capital punishment, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego cast

into, by Nebuchadnezzar

Dan 3:6-26

FIGURATIVE

Of affliction

Deu 4:20; 1Ki 8:51; Psa 12:6; Isa 48:10; Jer 11:4

Of lust

Hsa 7:4

Of hell

Mal 4:1; Mat 13:42,50; Rev 9:2

Here are the verses that contain the word furnace where the word is used to describe hell:

Mal 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Mat 13:42

And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Mat 13:50

And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Rev 9:2

And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.