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 burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he didn’t enter the Lord’s sanctuary, but the people still behaved corruptly.

for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

But where are your gods you made for yourself?
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame

—altars to burn incense to Baal—as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.

“Then after all your evil—Woe, woe to you!”—the declaration of the Lord God—

Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was troubled within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.

Worship

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

It serves as fuel for man.
He takes some of it and warms himself;
also he kindles a fire and bakes bread;
he even makes it into a god and worships it;
he makes an idol from it and bows down to it.

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

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

For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

Now they continue to sin
and make themselves a cast image,
idols skillfully made from their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
People say about them,
“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”

Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.

General references

I will remove sorceries from your hands,
and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.