Isaiah 46:1

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols 1 are carried by animals and beasts of burden. These idols that you carry are a heavy burden for weary animals. 1

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Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

In Context

2Together they bend low, kneel down; they cannot rescue the images, 1 and they themselves have gone off into captivity. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 12:12Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

Job 39:11Will you trust him because his strength is great? 1 Will you leave your work to him to do? 1

Isaiah 21:9Here comes a chariot with a man and a pair of horsemen. 1 He calls out, “Babylon has fallen, fallen, 1 and all the carved figures of its gods are broken to the ground.” 1

Jeremiah 10:5What they make with their hands is like scarecrows in a cucumber field, because they, too, can say nothing, and they have to be carried because they cannot walk. 1 Do not fear them, for they cannot bring about evil, nor are they able to do anything good.'” 1

Jeremiah 48:7For because of your trust in your practices and your wealth, you also will be captured. 1 Then Chemosh will go away into captivity, together with his priests and leaders. 1

Jeremiah 51:44So I will punish Bel in Babylon; I will bring out from his mouth what he swallowed, 1 and the nations will no longer flow to him with their offerings. The walls of Babylon will fall. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:1

God, by the prophet here, designing shortly to deliver them out of their captivity, prepared them for that deliverance by possessing them with a detestation of idols and with a believing confidence in God, even their own God. I. Let them not be afraid of the idols of Babylon, as if they could in any way obstruct their deliverance, for they should be defaced ( ver. 1, 2 ); but let them trust in that God who had often delivered them to do it still, to do it now, ver. 3, 4 . II. Let them not think to make idols of… Read the whole commentary →

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