Isaiah 37:19

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

18For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

20But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou art God alone.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 5:21And they leave there their gods, and David and his men with him took them.

Isaiah 10:7But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

Isaiah 10:10As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.

Isaiah 26:14But the dead shall not see life, neither shall physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

Isaiah 40:19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilded it over, and made it a similitude?

Isaiah 41:24whence ye are, and whence is your work: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

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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