Parallel Verses

Amplified


The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

New American Standard Bible

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

King James Version

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Holman Bible

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

International Standard Version

Their idols are silver and gold, crafted by human hands.

A Conservative Version

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

American Standard Version

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

Bible in Basic English

Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Darby Translation

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

Julia Smith Translation

Their images are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

King James 2000

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.

Modern King James verseion

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands.

NET Bible

Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.

New Heart English Bible

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The Emphasized Bible

Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men, -

Webster

Their idols are silver and gold; the work of men's hands.

World English Bible

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Youngs Literal Translation

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עצב 
`atsab 
Usage: 17

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

and gold
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390

the work
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

of men's
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Dead Idols And The Living God

3
But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
4 
The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
5
They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
They have eyes, but they cannot see;


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve [false and foreign] gods, the work of human hands, [lifeless images of] wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell [the offerings of food given to them].

Jeremiah 10:3-5


For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility];
It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god],
The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.

Acts 19:26

You see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost all over [the province of] Asia, this Paul has persuaded [people to believe his teaching] and has misled a large number of people, claiming that gods made by [human] hands are not really gods at all.

2 Kings 19:18

and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not [real] gods but [only] the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they [could destroy them and] have destroyed them.

Psalm 97:7


Let all those be [deeply] ashamed who serve carved images,
Who boast in idols.
Worship Him, all you gods!

Psalm 135:15-18


The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast the gods [of those peoples] into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 40:19-20


As for the cast image (idol), a metalworker casts it,
A goldsmith overlays it with gold
And a silversmith casts its silver chains.

Isaiah 42:17


Those who trust in carved idols will be turned back,
And utterly put to shame,
Who say to cast images,
“You are our gods.”

Isaiah 44:10

Who has made a god or cast an idol which is profitable for nothing?

Isaiah 44:20

That kind of man (the idolater) feeds on ashes [and is satisfied with ashes]! A deceived mind has led him astray, so that he cannot save himself, or ask, “Is this thing [that I am holding] in my right hand not a lie?”

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their idols are on the beasts [of burden] and on the cattle.
Your burdens [of idols] are loaded [on them],
Burdens on the weary animals.

Isaiah 46:6-7


“Those who lavish gold from the bag
And weigh out silver on the scales
Hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
They bow down, indeed they worship it.

Hosea 8:6


For even this [loathsome calf] is from Israel.
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces and go up in flames.

Habakkuk 2:18-20


“What profit is the carved image when its maker has formed it?
It is only a cast image, and a teacher of lies.
For its maker trusts in his own creation [as his god]
When he makes speechless idols.

Acts 19:35

After the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of that [sacred stone image of her] which fell from the sky?

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I mean then? That a thing offered to idols is anything [special or changed simply because it is offered], or that an idol is anything?

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