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

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Bible References

Profiteth

And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.

They are turned back, they are greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and who say to the images, You are our gods.

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go into disgrace together.

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle; the things you carried about have become a load, a burden for the weary.

saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave me birth. For they have turned their back to 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 with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.

Declare among the nations, and cause them to hear, and lift up a banner. Cause them to hear, do not hide it; say, Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is broken in pieces; her images are shamed, her idols are broken in pieces.

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

A teacher

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

For the family idols speak iniquity, and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams. They comfort in vain; therefore they wandered like a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

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

whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

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

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the 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 like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put them out.

He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes it grow.

Dumb

You know that being led away, you nations were led to dumb idols.

General references

The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

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

Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;