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 works of the hands of men, -
Deuteronomy 4:28
and ye will serve there gods made by the hands of man, - wood or stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Isaiah 37:19
and have put their gods in the fire, - for, no-gods, were they, but the work of the hands of men wood and stone and so they destroyed them.
Isaiah 40:19
The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, - And, chains of silver, he worketh.
Isaiah 44:9
The fashioners of an image - all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit, - And, their, witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:6
They who pour gold out of a purse, And who weigh silver in a balance, - Who hire a goldsmith that he may make it into a GOD, They adore, yea they bow down;
Jeremiah 10:3
For as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are, - For a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman with the axe:
Habakkuk 2:18
What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, - though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!
Acts 17:29
Being, then, offspring, of God, we ought not to be supposing that, unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and device of man, the Divine, is like.
General references
Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make to thee an image, or any form, that is in the heavens above, - or that is in the earth beneath, - or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Isaiah 40:19
The image, hath been cast by an artificer, And a goldsmith, with gold, overlayeth it, - And, chains of silver, he worketh.
Jeremiah 16:20
Shall a son of earth, make for himself gods, Seeing that, they, are no-gods?