Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
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Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
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Isaiah 41:4
Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
Isaiah 41:5
The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.
Isaiah 41:6
Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”
Isaiah 41:7
So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
Isaiah 41:8
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
Isaiah 41:1
“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Isaiah 41:21
Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Isaiah 40:19
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40:20
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
Isaiah 46:5
“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?
Isaiah 46:6
Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.
Isaiah 46:7
They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:5
They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
Isaiah 44:13
The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
Isaiah 44:14
He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.
Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Isaiah 44:17
The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
Jeremiah 10:11
“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
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Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
Jeremiah 10:4
They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.
Jeremiah 10:6
There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.
Jeremiah 10:7
Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
Jeremiah 10:9
There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skillful men.
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1 Samuel 5:3
When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon and set him in his place again.
1 Samuel 5:4
When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.
Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.
Isaiah 46:2
They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.
Isaiah 42:17
“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
Isaiah 45:16
They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
Isaiah 45:20
“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
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Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
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Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
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Judges 13:25
Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
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Jeremiah 23:29
“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
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Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
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Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
Acts 19:25
whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
Acts 19:28
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 21:28
crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place!”
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