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
You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.
Isaiah 44:19
No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of adultery caused them to go astray. They have played the harlot, departing from their God.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
Psalm 115:8
Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.
Isaiah 40:21
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
Jonah 2:8
They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.