Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Idols
General references
Bible References
Idols
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
Deuteronomy 4:28
And ye shall there serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isaiah 37:19
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 40:19
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
Isaiah 44:9
They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:6
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for it is a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;
Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?
Acts 17:29
Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Isaiah 40:19
The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
Jeremiah 16:20
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no-gods?