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Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
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Jeremiah 10:3-5
for the customs of the peoples are worthless. Someone cuts down a tree from the forest; it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.He decorates it with silver and gold. It is fastened with hammer and nails, so it won’t totter.Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them for they can do no harm— and they cannot do any good.
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Isaiah 46:6-7
Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales— they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.
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Isaiah 40:19-20
An idol?— something that a smelter casts and a metalworker plates with gold and makes silver chains for?A poor person contributes wood for a pedestal that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not fall over.
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Isaiah 46:1-2
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.The gods cower; they crouch together; they are not able to rescue the burden, but they themselves go into captivity.
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Habakkuk 2:18-20
What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.But the LORD is in his holy temple; let the whole earth be silent in his presence.
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Isaiah 44:10
Who makes a god or casts a metal image that benefits no one?
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Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods.
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Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot rescue himself, or say,“ Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
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Hosea 8:6
For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
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1 Corinthians 10 19-1 Corinthians 10 20
What am I saying then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons!
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Psalms 97:7
All who serve carved images, those who boast in worthless idols, will be put to shame. All the gods must worship him.
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Isaiah 42:17
They will be turned back and utterly ashamed— those who trust in an idol and say to a cast image,‘ You are our gods!’
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Psalms 135:15-18
The idols of the nations are of silver and gold, made by human hands.They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.They have ears but cannot hear; indeed, there is no breath in their mouths.Those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
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Isaiah 37:19
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made from wood and stone by human hands. So they have destroyed them.
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2 Kings 19 18
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands— wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
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Acts 19:35
When the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said,“ People of Ephesus! What person is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?