Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Their idols
General references
Bible References
Their idols
Psalm 97:7 All who serve carved images,
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods must worship Him.
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods
Psalm 135:15 The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,
made by human hands.
made by human hands.
Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
Isaiah 40:19 To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
Isaiah 42:17 They will be turned back and utterly ashamed—
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!
Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.
Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.
The images you carry are loaded,
as a burden for the weary animal.
Jeremiah 10:3 for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.
Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;
it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.
Hosea 8:6 For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
a craftsman made it,
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
Habakkuk 2:18 What use is a carved idol
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
after its craftsman carves it?
It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies.
For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it
and makes idols that cannot speak.
Acts 19:26
You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!
1 Corinthians 10:19
What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
General references
Exodus 20:4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19 To an idol?—something that a smelter casts,
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
Jeremiah 16:20 Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.
But they are not gods.