Isaiah 17:8
They won't believe in the altars they built and the idols they made; they will not look to the Asherah poles or the altars of incense.
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In Context
7At that time people will pay attention to their Creator and look to the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 34:13For you must tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles,
2 Chronicles 31:1When all this had finished, the Israelites who were there went to the towns of Judah and smashed the pagan pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and destroyed the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had completely demolished all of them. After that they all went home to their respective towns.
2 Chronicles 34:6Josiah repeated this in the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, all the way to Naphtali, and in their surrounding areas.
Isaiah 2:8Their country is full of idols; they bow down and worship what they have made themselves—produced by their own hands!
Isaiah 27:9Through this experience Jacob's guilt will be forgiven. The removal of their sins will come to fruition when they take all the pagan altar stones and crush them to pieces like chalk—no Asherah poles or altars of incense will be left standing.
Isaiah 31:6Come back, Israelites, to the one you so blatantly rebelled against.
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 →