Isaiah 46:6

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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.

Lavish

They fall

Isaiah 2:8

Isaiah 44:17

Daniel 3:5

General references

Bible References

Lavish

As for the

idol, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

Each one helps his neighbor
And says to his brother, “Be strong!”

The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

“Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;

They have no knowledge,

Who carry about their wooden idol
And pray to a god who cannot save.

Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you.”

So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

They have set up kings, but not by Me;

They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

They fall

Their land has also been filled with idols;
They worship the work of their hands,
That which their fingers have made.

But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

that at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe and all kinds of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

General references

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

You shall make for yourself no molten gods.

As for the

idol, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.