Thematic Bible: For making idols


Thematic Bible



He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth. Verse ConceptsTreesFelling Treeswoodworkingtoughness

And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god. Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved. Verse ConceptsUnreliabilityWisdom, Human NaturedissatisfactionMotionlessnessSkilled PeopleNo DecayMoving Oncraftsmanshipimage

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain