Judges 17:3 Cross References - ECB

³ And he restores the eleven hundred silvers to his mother, and his mother says, In hallowing, I hallow the silver to Yah Veh from my hand for my son to work a sculptile and a molting: and now I restore it to you.

⁴ Work not to yourself any sculptile or any similitude of that in the heavens above or that in the earth beneath or that in the water under the earth:

²³ Neither work me elohim of silver nor work yourselves elohim of gold:

¹⁷ Work no molten elohim.

⁴ Neither turn your face to idols, nor work to yourselves molten elohim: I - Yah Veh your Elohim.

³ and pull down their sacrifice altars and break their monoliths and burn their asherim with fire; and cut down the sculptiles of their elohim and destroy their names from that place.

¹³ Then Michah Yah says, Now I know that Yah Veh is well-pleased, seeing I have a Leviy to my priest.

⁵ And they say to him, Ask counsel, we beseech you, of Elohim, to know whether the way we go prospers.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold the work of human hands: ⁵ mouths have they, but they word not; eyes have they, but they see not; ⁶ ears have they, but they hear not; nostrils have they, but they scent not; ⁷ hands have they, but they touch not; feet have they, but they walk not; they mutter not through their throat. ⁸ They who work them are like them; thus is every one who confides in them.

¹⁸ To whom then liken you El? Or what likeness line you up to him? ¹⁹ The engraver pours a sculptile; and the refiner overlays with gold and refines silver chains. ²⁰ He who is so cut off that he has no exaltment chooses a tree that rots not; he seeks a wise engraver to prepare a sculptile that topples not. ²¹ Know you not? Hear you not? Were you not told from the beginning? Discerned you not from the foundations of the earth? ²² It is he who settles on the circle of the earth, and the settlers are as locusts who spread the heavens as a veil, - spreads them as a tent to settle in: ²³ who gives the potentates to naught; who works the judges of the earth as waste. ²⁴ Yes, they are not planted; yes, they are not seeded: yes, their stump roots not in the earth: and he also puffs on them, and they wither, and the storm bears them away as stubble. ²⁵ To whom then liken you me, or equate? says the Holy One.

⁹ They who form a sculptile all of them are a waste; and their desires benefit not: and they are their own witnesses; they neither see, nor know to shame. ¹⁰ Who ever formed an el or poured a sculptile that is not beneficial? ¹¹ Behold, all his companions shame: and the engravers are of humanity: they all gather; together they stand: they fear; together they shame. ¹² The engraver of iron works with the ax in the coals and forms with hammers and makes with the force of his arms: yes, he famishes and his force is not: he drinks no water and wearies. ¹³ The engraver of timber spreads his line; he surveys with a stylus; he works with planes: and he surveys with the compass and works after the pattern of a man according to the adornment of humanity; that it settle in the house: ¹⁴ he cuts down cedars; and takes the cypress and the oak which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the downpour nourishes: ¹⁵ and it becomes for humanity to burn: for he takes and heats; yes, he kindles and bakes bread: yes, he works an el and prostrates; he makes a sculptile, and prostrates thereto: ¹⁶ he burns half in the fire; with half he eats flesh; he roasts a roast, and satiates: yes, he heats, and says, Aha, I heat up; I see the flame: ¹⁷ and of what survives, he works an el - his sculptile: he prostrates thereto - prostrates and prays thereto, and says, Rescue me; for you are my el. ¹⁸ They neither know nor discern: for he daubs their eyes from seeing, and their hearts from comprehending: ¹⁹ and no one turns to his heart; there is neither knowledge nor discernment to say, I burn half in the fire; yes, also I bake bread on the coals; I roast flesh and eat: and I work the remnant an abhorrence: I prostrate to the product of a tree. ²⁰ He grazes on ashes: a mocked heart perverts him that he neither rescues his soul, nor says, Is there not a falsehood in my right?

³ Whoever slaughters an ox, smites a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb, breaks the neck of a dog; whoever holocausts an offering, the blood of swine; whoever memorializes with incense, blesses mischief: yes, they choose their own ways and their soul delights in their abominations.

³ for the statutes of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree from the forest - the work of the hands of the engraver with the ax: ⁴ they beautify with silver and with gold; they strengthen with nails and with hammers so that it wiggles not: ⁵ round as the palm tree, but word not: in bearing, they bear, because they pace not. Awe them not, for they vilify not; yes, it is not in them to well-please.

⁸ And as one, they are brutish and foolish: the tree is a discipline of vanities.

¹⁸ What profit is the sculptile to the former who sculpts - or the molten, to a teacher of falsehoods, Confides the former of its form to work mute idols? ¹⁹ Ho to him who says to the timber, Waken! - to the silent stone, Waken! It teaches! Behold, it is manipulated with gold and silver, and there is no spirit at all in its midst.

² They ex-synogogue you: yet the hour comes that whoever slaughters you thinks he offers Elohim liturgy: