Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
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Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
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1 Kings 18:28
They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances until the blood gushed out on them.
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1 Kings 18:29
When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.
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Psalms 97:7
Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
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.
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Psalms 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
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Psalms 135:18
Those who make them will be like them, yes, everyone who trusts in them.
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Isaiah 44:10
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
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 44:15
Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he burns it and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
Isaiah 44:16
He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”
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Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
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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 10:15
They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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