Isaiah 37:19

and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

In Context

18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,

20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou are LORD, even thou only.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 5:21And they left their images there, and David and his men took them away.

Isaiah 10:7However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Isaiah 10:10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

Isaiah 26:14[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

Isaiah 40:19The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.

Isaiah 41:24Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of naught. An abomination is he who chooses you.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:9-21

Prayer of Hezekiah. ( b. c. 710.) 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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