Isaiah 46:2

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

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In The King James Version

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

In Context

1Bel 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

3Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, 1 who have been carried by me from before your birth, carried from the womb. 1

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Cross References

Judges 18:17The five men who had gone to scout out the land went there and they took the carved figure, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast metal figure, while the priest stood by the opening of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

2 Samuel 5:21The Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations rescued them, the nations that my fathers destroyed: Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Tel Assar?

Isaiah 44:17With the rest of the wood he makes a god, his carved image; he bows down to it and reverences it, 1 and prays to it saying, “Rescue me, for you are my god.” 1

Jeremiah 43:12Then I will light a fire in the temples of Egypt's gods. Nebuchadnezzar will burn them or capture them. He will clean out the land of Egypt just as shepherds clean vermin off their clothes. He will go out from that place in victory. + 43:12 Instead of I will light a fire , some ancient and modern versions have he will light a fire .

Hosea 10:5The inhabitants of Samaria will be afraid 1 because of the calves of Beth Aven. 1 Its people mourned over them, 1 as did those idolatrous priests who had rejoiced over them 1 and their splendor, 1 but they are no longer there. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:2-5

The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 708.) 1 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. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: 4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar… Read the whole commentary →

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