Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 10:8
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?
Psalm 115:4-8
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Their gods are made of silver and gold, formed by human hands.
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They have mouths, but cannot speak, and eyes, but cannot see.
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They have ears, but cannot hear, and noses, but cannot smell.
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They have hands, but cannot feel, and feet, but cannot walk; they cannot make a sound.
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May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made.
Isaiah 44:9-20
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All those who make idols are worthless, and the gods they prize so highly are useless. Those who worship these gods are blind and ignorant---and they will be disgraced.
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It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!
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Everyone who worships it will be humiliated. The people who make idols are human beings and nothing more. Let them come and stand trial---they will be terrified and will suffer disgrace.
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The metalworker takes a piece of metal and works with it over a fire. His strong arm swings a hammer to pound the metal into shape. As he works, he gets hungry, thirsty, and tired.
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The carpenter measures the wood. He outlines a figure with chalk, carves it out with his tools, and makes it in the form of a man, a handsome human figure, to be placed in his house.
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He might cut down cedars to use, or choose oak or cypress wood from the forest. Or he might plant a laurel tree and wait for the rain to make it grow.
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A person uses part of a tree for fuel and part of it for making an idol. With one part he builds a fire to warm himself and bake bread; with the other part he makes a god and worships it.
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With some of the wood he makes a fire; he roasts meat, eats it, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, "How nice and warm! What a beautiful fire!"
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The rest of the wood he makes into an idol, and then he bows down and worships it. He prays to it and says, "You are my god---save me!"
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Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
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The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, "Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!"
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It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.
Isaiah 46:6-8
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People open their purses and pour out gold; they weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make a god; then they bow down and worship it.
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They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they put it in place, and there it stands, unable to move from where it is. If any pray to it, it cannot answer or save them from disaster.
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"Remember this, you sinners; consider what I have done.
Habakkuk 2:18
What's the use of an idol? It is only something that a human being has made, and it tells you nothing but lies. What good does it do for its maker to trust it---a god that can't even talk!
Habakkuk 2:19
You are doomed! You say to a piece of wood, "Wake up!" or to a block of stone, "Get up!" Can an idol reveal anything to you? It may be covered with silver and gold, but there is no life in it.
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Ezekiel 8:16
So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They had turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.
Ezekiel 23:35
Now this is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution."
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Jeremiah 2:24
rushing into the desert. When she is in heat, who can control her? No male that wants her has to trouble himself; she is always available in mating season.
Jeremiah 22:23
You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.
Judges 10:8-16
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For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.
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The Ammonites even crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was in great distress.
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Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD and said, "We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshiped the Baals."
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The LORD gave them this answer: "The Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
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the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you in the past, and you cried out to me. Did I not save you from them?
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But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.
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Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."
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But the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned. Do whatever you like, but please, save us today."
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So they got rid of their foreign gods and worshiped the LORD; and he became troubled over Israel's distress.
Psalm 78:34-37
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Whenever he killed some of them, the rest would turn to him; they would repent and pray earnestly to him.
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They remembered that God was their protector, that the Almighty came to their aid.
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But their words were all lies; nothing they said was sincere.
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They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.
Isaiah 26:16
You punished your people, LORD, and in anguish they prayed to you.
Hosea 5:15
"I will abandon my people until they have suffered enough for their sins and come looking for me. Perhaps in their suffering they will try to find me."
Hosea 7:14
They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!