Habakkuk 2:18

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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

And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, you are our gods.

They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

A teacher

But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of demons;

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

That the

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

And the strong shall be as tinder, and the work of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them .

He hews himself down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he secures for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants a pine, and the rain does nourish it.

Dumb

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as you were led.

General references

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusts in them.

The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

Who fashions a god, or molds a graven image, that is profitable for nothing?

They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.