Bible Cross References
idols
Psalm 115:4-8
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The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.
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They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see;
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they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell;
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they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot speak through their throat.
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Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them.
Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you shall serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isaiah 37:19
and have cast their idols into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.
Isaiah 40:19
Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, guilded it over, [and] made it a similitude?
Isaiah 40:20
For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely inquire how he shall set up his image, and [that so] that it should not be moved.
Isaiah 44:9-20
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But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
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that form a god, and all that engrave worthless things;
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and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from [among] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together;
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For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions [the idol] with an ax, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm; and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
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The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.
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He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, [even] a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,
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that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves on it; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.
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Half of it he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.
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And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god.
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They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.
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And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.
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Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.
Isaiah 46:6
They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move; and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.
Jeremiah 10:3-11
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For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
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[They are] beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
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they will set them up that they may not move.
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It is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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[brought] from Tarshish, gold will come from Uphaz, and the work of goldsmiths. [They are] all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.
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They must certainly be borne, for they cannot ride [of themselves]. Fear them not, for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.
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Thus shall you say to them: Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the graven image, that they have graven it? One has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Arise! For it is an image, and this is a casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.
Acts 17:29
"Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and the imagination of man.