Psalm 115:4

Dead Idols And The Living God

³ But our God is in the heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.
⁴ Their idols 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;

Silver and Gold

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Jeremiah 10:3-5

For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Acts 19:26

You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.

2 Kings 19:18

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Psalm 97:7

Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,
Who boast themselves of idols;
Worship Him, all you gods.

Psalm 135:15-18

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

Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 40:19-20

As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

Isaiah 42:17

They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame,
Who trust in idols,
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”

Isaiah 44:10

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 46:1-2

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.

Isaiah 46:6-7

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

Hosea 8:6

For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

Habakkuk 2:18-20

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

Acts 19:35

After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?