Isaiah 2:8

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Summary

Isaiah 2:8

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Is full

Worship

General references

Micah 5:12

Bible References

Is full

Who inflame yourselves among the

oaks,

Under every luxuriant tree,

Who slaughter the children in the ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags?

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly.

But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

“But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can save you
In the time of your trouble;
For according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.

For your gods are

as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.

“Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord God),

Is there iniquity in Gilead?
Surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps
Beside the furrows of the field.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.

Worship

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols

skillfully made from their silver,

All of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

“Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds mercy.”

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

General references

“I will cut off sorceries from your hand,
And you will have fortune-tellers no more.