To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains? Cross References Psalm 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold--the idols they made to worship. Isaiah 30:22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, "Be gone!" Isaiah 41:7 The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, "It is good." He nails it down so it will not be toppled. Isaiah 44:10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? 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 loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint. Isaiah 46:6 They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship. Jeremiah 10:4 They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. Jeremiah 10:9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz--the work of a craftsman from the hands of a goldsmith. Their clothes are blue and purple, all fashioned by skilled workers. Daniel 5:4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. Habakkuk 2:18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it--or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Habakkuk 2:19 Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all." Treasury of Scripture The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains. Isaiah 37:18,19 Isaiah 41:6,7 Isaiah 44:10-12 |