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.
Be borne
General references
Bible References
Speak
Psalm 115:5
A mouth to them, and they shall not speak: eyes to them, and they will not see:
Psalm 135:16
A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see;
Habakkuk 2:19
Wo! to him saying to the wood, Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach. Being overlaid with gold and silver, and not any spirit in its midst.
1 Corinthians 12:2
Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away.
Revelation 13:14
And he deceives them dwelling upon earth by the signs which were given him to do before the wild beast; saying to them dwelling upon earth, to make an image to the wild beast, who has the blow of the sword, and he lived.
Be borne
Isaiah 46:1
Bel bent; Nebo bowed down; their images were for the beast and for the cattle: your gifts were carried; a lifting up to the weary.
Do evil
Isaiah 41:23
Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together.
Isaiah 44:9
They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 45:20
Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning food therefore of sacrifices to idols, we know that an idol nothing in the world, and that none other God but one.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19
The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.
Isaiah 44:10
Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing?