Jeremiah 10:4

He decorates it with silver and gold.
It is fastened with hammer and nails,
so it won’t totter.

Isaiah 40:19-20

To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Psalm 135:15

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Isaiah 41:6-7

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 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

General references

Bible References

Deck

Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.
Isaiah 40:19
To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?

Fasten

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 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.

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.
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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