Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Bible References

The stock

Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Hosea 4:12
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

General references

Exodus 20:4
You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Psalm 115:8
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
Isaiah 40:21
Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?
Jonah 2:8
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain