Habakkuk 2:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Profiteth

A teacher

That the

Dumb

1 Corinthians 12:2

General references

Bible References

Profiteth

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!

All who make idols are nothing,
and what they treasure does not profit.
Their witnesses do not see or know anything,
so they will be put to shame.

All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;
the makers of idols go in humiliation together.

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.

say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,
yet in their time of disaster they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

Announce to the nations;
proclaim and raise up a signal flag;
proclaim, and hide nothing.
Say: Babylon is captured;
Bel is put to shame;
Marduk is devastated;
her idols are put to shame;
her false gods, devastated.

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

A teacher

They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!

Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,

For the idols speak falsehood,
and the diviners see illusions;
they relate empty dreams
and offer empty comfort.
Therefore the people wander like sheep;
they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders,

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb,

but he sounded like a dragon.

But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

That the

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.

The strong one will become tinder,
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the flames.

He cuts down cedars for his use,
or he takes a cypress or an oak.
He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

Dumb

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

General references

Those who make them are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.

To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?

Who makes a god or casts a metal image
for no profit?

Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,