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,
The work of man’s hands.

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

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.

As for the

idol, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“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.

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.

“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.

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

General references

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

As for the

idol, a craftsman casts it,

A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.

Can man make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!