Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I [am] Yahweh your God. Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritMaking Idolsethics, personalClaimsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinUnfaithfulness, To GodIdolsPolytheismObelisksBowing To False GodsIdol WorshipNot Like IdolsThe Lord Is GodIdolatryAvoiding IdolatrySelf Imageadorationstatuesimage

And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. Verse ConceptsDeafnessFalse ReligionEatingGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToNosesResponseSmellsStonesUnreliabilitySpiritual DeafnessIdols Not SeeingUnhearingWorshiping GodServing Godatheismstatues

He has hurled their gods in the fire because they [are] not gods, but the work of the hands of a human [made of] wood and stone, so they destroyed them. Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

to {set} their gods in the fire, for they [were] not gods, but [the] work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them. Verse ConceptsMonotheismStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stonestatues


[The] {woodworker} stretches out a line; he makes an outline [of] it with marker. He makes it with knife and makes an outline [of] it with compass. He makes it like [the] image of a man, like [the] beauty of a human, to dwell [in] a temple. Cutting down cedars for himself, he {chooses} a holm tree and an oak, and he lets it grow strong for him among [the] trees of [the] forest. He plants a cedar, and [the] rain makes [it] grow. And it {becomes fuel for a human}, and he takes some of it and grows warm; also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also, he makes a god and bows in worship; he makes himself an image and bows down to it! read more.
He burns half of it in [the] fire; he eats meat over half of it; he roasts a roast and is satisfied. Also he grows warm and says, "Ah! I am warm! I see [the] fire!" And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you [are] my god!" They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes [are] besmeared {so that they cannot see}, their {minds} {so that they have no insight}. And {no one takes it to heart}, and [there is] no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in [the] fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make [the] rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!"

And {what you are planning}, surely it will not be--that you are saying, 'Let us be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, {serving wood and stone}!' Verse ConceptsWoodNeverLike The NationsUnfulfilled WordWood And Stone