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Sorry but unless one knows Hebrew, I would tend to disagree because the hebrew is very clear- Iron is mentioned twice, the verb "KNOWS" and the word "north"

"NORTH IRON IRON KNOWS"

IT IS VERY VERY CLEAR AS TO WHAT IT MEANS

The Septuagint is even more precise than the Hebrew=

εἰ γνωσθήσεται σίδηρος; καὶ περιβόλαιον χαλκοῦν

13. ἡ ἰσχύς σου.

indeed! knows iron [nom] even in North

transposed=

"Indeed! Even Iron knows north!" St. Jerome stuck in the "EI" [indeed!] to make it a REAL FACT =IN DEED, factual statement, not a reference to some future or past army from the north-

The word army is not in there anywhere either in greek nor hebrew Jeremiah 15-12. There is no metaphor here as all the translators have never classified it as a metaphor. BECAUSE ST> JEROME SAID "INDEED"= FACT

Please do not let imagination run the bible because St. Jerome says this is a FACT by using "EI" as the first exclamatory word in the greek. ["In strong statements..and as the FIRST WORD in an interrogative clause, a more EMPHATIC" i.e. for EMPHASIS! -

I am saying, when St. Jerome translated the Septuagint from hebrew into greek, he left out one of the "iron"s,- and anyone knows that repetition in OT or NT means IMPORTANCE OF THAT WORD which is BEING REPEATED> because only greek uses the word [the same in succession ]repetition that hurts the ears, not latin.

Here is a list of Homer`s cities in the Iliad that, when located on a map of Greece, are on the points of a Maltese cross oriented magnetic north. I did this 20 years ago. The university researchers found the City of Pigeons only recently by mapping out a point on the maltese cross coz all these cities are equidistant from adjacent cities on the tips of the cross..

"These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoenus, Scolus, and the highlands of Eteonus, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mycalessus. They also held Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae; and they had Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon; Ocalea and the strong fortress of Medeon; Copae, Eutresis, and Thisbe the haunt of doves; Coronea, and the pastures of Haliartus; Plataea and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon the sea. From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians.

http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.2.ii.html

There was also a study on the Maltese Cross Greek Cities of the Ilaid. but it was many years ago, maybe pub in Nat'l geographic? dunno.

In 500 AD the romans were fooling around with magnets.

also viz: rapuerat = "attracted" ][lodestone??? found in Caesar`s Gallic Wars" also rapuerat = lodestone or magnet

lodestone= Magnetem lapidem nouimus

====== PRISCIANI PERIEGESIS p404ff magneti, magnetem Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530

p404ff, "Bibliotheca classica latina; sive. Collectio auctorum ...", Volume 137

http://books.google.com/books?id=7vUZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA405&dq=Magnetem&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b403U9HpKqfOsASVsIFQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Magnetem&f=false

I am still looking for the Egyptian but I`ll find it coz I have the codex`s [codices.]