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
saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth; for they have turned the back unto me, and not the face; and in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us!
Isaiah 44:19
And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God:

General references

Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Psalm 115:8
They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.
Isaiah 40:21
do ye not know? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood the foundation of the earth?
Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.