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 + 46:6 Gr. things made with hands. idols, and bow down, and worship them.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
5To whom have you⌃ compared me? see, consider, you⌃ that go astray.
Cross References
Exodus 32:2And Aaron says to them, Take off the golden ear-rings 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 you commanded; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said,
Judges 17:4But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave + 17:4 Gr. it. them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias.
Psalms 115:7Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 1
Isaiah 40:19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt 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 →