Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Bible References

He marketh

Exodus 20:4
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
Deuteronomy 4:16
Do not commit the sin of worshiping idols. Do not make idols to be worshiped, whether they are shaped like men, women,
Acts 17:29
Being then the offspring of God, we should not think that the divine being is like gold, or silver, or stone, a device made by man's design or skill.
Romans 1:23
They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

That it may

Genesis 31:19
When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.
Genesis 35:2
Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image. It is an abomination to Jehovah! It is the secret work of the hands of the craftsman. All the people will answer: Amen.
Judges 17:4
He returned them to his mother. She took two hundred of the pieces of silver and gave them to a metalworker. The metalworker made an idol, carving it from wood and covering it with the silver. It was placed in Micah's house.
Judges 18:24
Micah answered: What do you mean? You take my priest and the gods that I made, and walk off! What do I have left?
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said: Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: 'Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!'