Isaiah 46:6
They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.
Cross References
Exodus 32:2And Aaron says to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters, and bring them to me.
Exodus 32:8they have quickly gone out of the way which thou commandedst; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshiped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Judges 17:4But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah.
Psalms 115:7O Lord, I am thy servant; 1 I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid: 1 Thou hast burst my bonds asunder. 1
Isaiah 40:19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilded it over, and made it a similitude?
Isaiah 44:12For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
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 →