Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Bible References

Lavish

Isaiah 40:19
To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
Isaiah 41:6
Each one helps the other,
and says to another, “Take courage!”
Isaiah 44:12
The ironworker labors over the coals,
shapes the idol with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;
he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
Isaiah 45:20
“Come, gather together,
and draw near, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols,
and pray to a god who cannot save,
have no knowledge.
Exodus 32:2
Then Aaron replied to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters and bring them to me.”
Judges 17:3
He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”
1 Kings 12:28
So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of 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.
Hosea 8:4
They have installed kings,
but not through Me.
They have appointed leaders,
but without My approval.
They make their silver and gold
into idols for themselves
for their own destruction.
Habakkuk 2:18
What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
Acts 17:29
Being God’s offspring then, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.

They fall

Isaiah 2:8
Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
Isaiah 44:17
He makes a god or his idol with the rest of it.
He bows down to it and worships;
He prays to it, “Save me, for you are my god.”
Daniel 3:5
When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

General references

Exodus 20:4
Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
Exodus 32:3
So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
Exodus 34:17
“Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.
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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