And what of those metal workers who were taken away to Babylon with the elite? The fallen angels, that is, the apostate high priests, revealed their knowledge and skills, and the first skill listed was metal working, revealed by Asael the leader of the fallen angels. Refining metal was an image of divine judgment: Malachi said that the angel of the covenant would appear in the temple to refine and purify the wicked priests (Mal. 3:.1-3); and according to the preface to Isaiah the LORD himself would smelt away the dross from his people (Isa. 1.24). Isaiah was told to write his message on a tablet, gillāyôn (Isa. 8.1), but the same letters pronounced gilyon were understood by the Targum to mean ‘mirror’, a piece of polished metal. (Isa 3.23). Isaiah must have written on a metal tablet. Later the prophet commanded: ‘Bind up the testimony, seal up the teaching among my disciples’ (Isa. 8.16), and the word ‘bind’, ṣwr, can also mean to fashion metal. This is how Aaron the high priest made the golden calf (Exod. 32.4). The Old Testament shows that the LORD himself, the angels and the high priests were metal workers, although this is rarely recognised. Zechariah had to throw 30 pieces of silver into the refinery in the temple, according to LXX Zechariah 11.13, where the Hebrew has ‘house of the potter’. It may be coincidence that the elite taken to Babylon were the King, the Great Lady, the eunuchs and the metal workers.