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 there you shall 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: therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 40:19
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Isaiah 44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them nothing; and their precious things shall not 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, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profits the graven image that its maker has shaped it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?
Acts 17:29
Therefore then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
General references
Exodus 20:4
You shall not make unto yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Isaiah 40:19
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Jeremiah 16:20
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?