Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god they can bow down and worship. Cross References Isaiah 30:22So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying, "Be gone!" Isaiah 40:19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? Isaiah 41:7 The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good." He nails it down so it will not be toppled. Isaiah 44:12 The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and his strength fails; he fails to drink water and grows faint. Isaiah 44:15 It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, "Save me, for you are my god." Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives of the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save. Jeremiah 10:4 They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols. Daniel 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, "Let the men who offer human sacrifice kiss the calves!" Chapter Outline 1. The idols of Babylon could not save themselves3. God saves his people to the end 5. Idols are not comparable to God for power 12. Or present salvation. Jump to Previous Bag Bags Balance Bow Faces Fall Gold Goldsmith Hire Indeed Makes Maketh Payment Pour Purse Scale Scales Silver Thereto Weigh WorshipJump to Next Bag Bags Balance Bow Faces Fall Gold Goldsmith Hire Indeed Makes Maketh Payment Pour Purse Scale Scales Silver Thereto Weigh Worship |
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