Isaiah 46:6
You take gold from a bag, and you weigh silver on a scale, so as to hire a goldsmith to make a god. And they fall prostrate and adore.
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In Context
5To whom would you liken me, or equate me, or compare me, or consider me to be similar?
Cross References
Exodus 32:2And Aaron said to them, “Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
Exodus 32:8They have quickly withdrawn from the way which you revealed to them. And they have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshiped it. And immolating victims to it, they have said: ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt.’”
Judges 17:4And when he restored these to his mother, she took two hundred of the silver coins, and she gave them to the silversmith, so that he might make from them a molten idol and a graven image. And it was in the house of Micah.
Psalms 115:7O Lord, because I am your servant, your servant and the son of your handmaid, you have broken my bonds.
Isaiah 40:19Should the workman cast a statue? Or has the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?
Isaiah 44:12The maker of iron has wrought with his file. With coals and hammers, he has formed it, and he has wrought with the strength of his arm. He will hunger and grow faint. He will not drink water, and he will become weary.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:6-13
The Folly of Idolatry; The Divine Prerogative Asserted. ( b. c. 708.) 5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 8… Read the whole commentary →