Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

The tongs

General references

Bible References

The smith isa 40

Isaiah 41:6
Each one helps the other,
and says to another, “Take courage!”
Isaiah 46:6
Those who pour out their bags of gold
and weigh out silver on scales—
they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god.
Then they kneel and bow down to it.
Exodus 32:4
He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.

Then they said, “Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”
Jeremiah 10:3
for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

The tongs

Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire
and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

General references

Psalm 107:5
They were hungry and thirsty;
their spirits failed within them.
Isaiah 40:19
To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?

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