2 Kings 19:18 References
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and have cast their gods into the fire, afor they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
a Isaiah 44:9-20, Acts 17:29
Isaiah 44
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Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be aput to shame.
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Behold, all his companions will be aput to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.
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The aman shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.
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aAnother shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of bman, so that it may sit in a chouse.
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Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
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Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also amakes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and bfalls down before it.
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Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire."
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But the rest of it he amakes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also bprays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."
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They do not aknow, nor do they understand, for He has bsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.
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No one recalls, nor is there aknowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an babomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"
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He afeeds on ashes; a bdeceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, "cIs there not a lie in my right hand?"