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, 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
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

Fasten

Isaiah 41:6
Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

General references

Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Isaiah 40:19
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.