Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
The stock
General references
Bible References
The stock
Jeremiah 2:27
For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'
Isaiah 44:19
They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.
General references
Exodus 20:4
"Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.
Psalm 115:8
They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.
Isaiah 40:21
Know ye not this? Heard ye never of it? Hath it not been preached unto you since the beginning? Have ye not been informed of this since the foundation of the earth was laid?
Jonah 2:8
They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.