Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Bible References

Man

Jeremiah 10:8
They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!
Jeremiah 51:17
Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
Psalm 14:2
The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.
Psalm 92:6
A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:
Psalm 94:8
Pay attention, you stupid people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
Proverbs 30:2
I am more stupid than any other man,
and I lack man’s ability to understand.
Isaiah 44:18
Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.
Isaiah 46:7
They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along;
they set it in its place, and there it stands;
it does not budge from its place.
They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer;
it saves no one from his trouble.
Romans 1:22
Claiming to be wise, they became fools

Brutish in his knowledge

Jeremiah 51:17
Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
Psalm 97:7
All who serve carved images,
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods must worship Him.
Isaiah 42:17
They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!
Isaiah 44:11
Look, all its worshipers will be put to shame,
and the craftsmen are humans.
They all will assemble and stand;
they all will be startled and put to shame.
Isaiah 45:16
All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;
the makers of idols go in humiliation together.

And

Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
Psalm 135:16
They have mouths but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
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.

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 34:17
“Do not make cast images of gods for yourselves.
Isaiah 45:16
All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;
the makers of idols go in humiliation together.
Jonah 2:8
Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,
Romans 1:22
Claiming to be wise, they became fools

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