Psalm 135:15

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Summary

Psalm 135:15

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

Idols

General references

Exodus 20:4

Isaiah 40:19

Jeremiah 16:20

Bible References

Idols

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

There you'll serve gods made by human hands, serving trees and stones that cannot see, hear, eat, nor smell.

and have thrown their gods into the fire but they are not gods, but rather the products of human hands, mere wood and stone. So the Assyrians destroyed them.

To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

Those who pour out gold in a purse, weigh silver in a balance, hire a goldsmith in order to make a god, and then they bow down and even worship it.

For the practices of the people are worthless. Indeed, a tree is cut down from the forest; it's the work of the hands of a craftsman with an ax.

"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

General references

"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.

To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.

Can a person make a god for himself? They are not gods!