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

A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

They help one another; one says to the other, 'Be strong!'

A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

So Aaron said to them, "Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, "I solemnly dedicate this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son's benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image."

After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.

They enthroned kings without my consent! They appointed princes without my approval! They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed!

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

They fall

Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying, 'Rescue me, for you are my god!'

When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has erected.

General references

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

You must not make yourselves molten gods.

A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.