Isaiah 17:8

They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they look to what their fingers have made, the Asherah poles or the sun images. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7On that day men will look toward their Maker, and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. 1

9On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned wooded slopes on the hill summits, 1 that were forsaken because of the people of Israel and that will become a desolation. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 34:13Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was finished, all the people of Israel who were there went out to the cities of Judah and broke to pieces the stone pillars and they cut down the Asherah poles, and they broke down the high places and the altars in all of Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned, every one to his own possession and his own city.

2 Chronicles 34:6He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, all the way to Naphtali, and in the ruins that surrounded them.

Isaiah 2:8Their land also is full of idols; 1 they worship the craftsmanship of their own hands, things that their own fingers have made. 1

Isaiah 27:9So in this way, the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for, for this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 1 when he will make all the altar stones as chalk and crushed to pieces, 1 and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. 1

Isaiah 31:6Return to him from whom you have deeply turned away, people of Israel.

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 →

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