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.
Fasten
General references
Bible References
Deck
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 40:19
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
Fasten
Isaiah 41:6
They help every man his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be of good courage.
Isaiah 44:12
The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it upon the shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands. From its place it shall not remove. Yea, he may cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19
The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.