Daniel 5:4
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4 They drank wine and (A)praised the (B)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Daniel 5:23
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23 but you have lifted up yourself against (A)the Lord of heaven. And (B)the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. (C)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, (D)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and (E)whose are all your ways, (F)you have not honored.
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Habakkuk 2:19
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19 (A)Woe to him (B)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and (C)there is no breath at all in it.
Psalm 135:15-18
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15 (A)The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
16 They have mouths, but do not speak;
they have eyes, but do not see;
17 they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them become like them,
so do all who trust in them.
Revelation 9:20-21
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20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, (A)did not repent of (B)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping (C)demons (D)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their (E)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Acts 17:29
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29 (A)Being then God's offspring, (B)we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
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Jeremiah 10:4-9
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4 (A)They decorate it with silver and gold;
(B)they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5 Their idols[a] are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and (C)they cannot speak;
(D)they have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
(E)for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
6 (F)There is none like you, O Lord;
you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 (G)Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
For this is your due;
for among all the wise ones of the nations
and in all their kingdoms
there is none like you.
8 (H)They are both (I)stupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!
9 (J)Beaten silver is brought from (K)Tarshish,
and gold from (L)Uphaz.
(M)They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;
their clothing is violet and purple;
(N)they are all the work of skilled men.
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- Jeremiah 10:5 Hebrew They
Isaiah 46:6-7
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6 (A)Those who lavish gold from the purse,
and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
(B)then they fall down and worship!
7 (C)They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
(D)it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
Isaiah 42:8
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8 I am the Lord; that is my name;
(A)my glory I give to no other,
nor my praise to carved idols.
Isaiah 40:19-20
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19 (A)An idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
20 (B)He who is too impoverished for an offering
chooses wood[a] that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
to set up an idol that will not move.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:20 Or He chooses valuable wood
Psalm 115:4-8
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4 (A)Their idols are silver and gold,
(B)the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, (C)but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 (D)Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
Hosea 2:8-13
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8 And (A)she did not know
that it was (B)I who gave her
(C)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on (D)her silver and gold,
(E)which they used for Baal.
9 Therefore (F)I will take back
my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season,
and (G)I will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now (H)I will uncover her lewdness
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
11 (I)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
her feasts, her (J)new moons, her (K)Sabbaths,
and all her (L)appointed feasts.
12 And (M)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
(N)of which she said,
‘These are (O)my wages,
which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
(P)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
13 And (Q)I will punish her for (R)the feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and (S)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.
Daniel 4:37
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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, (A)praise and extol and honor the (B)King of heaven, (C)for all his works are right and his ways are just; and (D)those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
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Daniel 3:1-18
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Nebuchadnezzar's Golden Image
3 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits[a] and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on (A)the plain of Dura, in (B)the province of Babylon. 2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather (C)the satraps, the prefects, and (D)the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 3 Then (E)the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4 And the herald (F)proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O (G)peoples, nations, and languages, 5 that when you hear the (H)sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you (I)are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately (J)be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” 7 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all (K)the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
The Fiery Furnace
8 Therefore at that time certain (L)Chaldeans (M)came forward and maliciously accused the Jews. 9 They declared[b] to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever! 10 You, O king, (N)have made a decree, that every man who (O)hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, (P)shall fall down and worship the golden image. 11 And whoever does not fall down and worship (Q)shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace. 12 There are certain Jews whom you have (R)appointed over the affairs of (S)the province of Babylon: (T)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, (U)pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar (V)in furious rage commanded that (W)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready when (X)you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.[c] But if you do not worship, (Y)you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And (Z)who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
16 (AA)Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If this be so, (AB)our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.[d] 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
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- Daniel 3:1 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
- Daniel 3:9 Aramaic answered and said; also verses 24, 26
- Daniel 3:15 Aramaic lacks well and good
- Daniel 3:17 Or If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, he will deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and out of your hand, O king
Isaiah 42:17
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17 (A)They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”
Judges 16:23-24
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The Death of Samson
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to (A)Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.” 24 And when the people saw him, (B)they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”[a]
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- Judges 16:24 Or who has multiplied our slain
Acts 19:24-28
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24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, (A)brought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 (B)These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, (C)saying that (D)gods made with hands are not gods. 27 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the (E)great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”
28 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, (F)“Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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