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 wood, 'My father art thou!' And to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, 'Arise Thou, and save us.'
Isaiah 44:19
And none doth turn it back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, 'Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.'
Hosea 4:12
My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

General references

Exodus 20:4
Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth.
Psalm 115:8
Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.
Isaiah 40:21
Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood From the foundations of the earth?
Jonah 2:8
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.