Jeremiah 10:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Speak

Revelation 13:14

Be borne

Isaiah 46:1

Do evil

General references

Exodus 20:4

Isaiah 40:19

Isaiah 44:10

Bible References

Speak

They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

Be borne

Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

Do evil

Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

General references

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.