Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! Verse ConceptsFutilityFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfVanityFoolishness Of Mendoctrine

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.


The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! Verse ConceptsFutilityFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfVanityFoolishness Of Mendoctrine

Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level. Verse ConceptsForgettingStumblingPaths Of RighteousnessOld ThingsIncense Offered AmissEvil WaysHighwaysPaths

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord's command. Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame. Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?