1 Chronicles 16:26

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Summary

1 Chronicles 16:26

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

All the gods

The lord

Bible References

All the gods

Do not turn to worthless gods or cast metal idols. Never make any gods for yourselves. I am Jehovah your God.

Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them.

All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.

Jehovah is the true (faithful) (right) God! He is the living God and the everlasting king. The earth quakes at his wrath. The nations cannot endure his indignation.

You see and hear that Paul, in Ephesus and throughout all Asia, has persuaded and turned away many people. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

The lord

You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands.

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? The being that brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name created all these! Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

God created the heavens and stretched them out. He fashioned the earth and all that lives there. He gave life and breath to all its people. And now Jehovah God says to his servant:

I am Jehovah, your savior. I am the one who created you. I am Jehovah, the Creator of all things. I alone stretched out the heavens! No one helped me when I made the earth (I was by myself) (Who was with me?).

You will say to the idolaters: The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

He spoke in a loud voice: Respect God, and give him glory! The hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.