Isaiah 17:8
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
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In Context
7In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 34:13But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
2 Chronicles 34:6And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.
Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Isaiah 27:9So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
Isaiah 31:6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:7-9
The Doom of Syria and Israel. ( b. c. 712.) 6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel. 7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.… Read the whole commentary →