Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
The carpenter
Goldsmith
General references
Bible References
The carpenter
Isaiah 40:19
As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals. He shapes an idol with hammers; he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength. He drinks no water and grows faint.
Isaiah 46:6
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it.
Jeremiah 10:3
The people's customs are erroneous and empty. It is wood cut from the forest. It is the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold. He set it up in the plain of Dura, the province of Babylon. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide.
Goldsmith
Isaiah 40:20
A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
Isaiah 46:7
They lift it to their shoulders and carry it. They set it up in its place and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer. It cannot save him from his troubles!
Judges 18:17
The five spies went straight into the house. They took the wooden idol covered with silver, the other idols, and the ephod. The priest stayed at the gate with the six hundred armed men.
General references
Isaiah 40:19
As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.