Judges 17:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ And when he gave his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, I indeed had dedicated this money to the Lord, out of my hand, for my son to make a graven and a molten image.

⁴ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth;

²³ You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not make for thyself molten gods.

⁴ you shall not follow idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God;

³ You shall level their mounts, and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn the graven images of their gods with fire, so that their name may be destroyed out of that place.

¹³ Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because I have got a Levite for a priest.

⁵ Then they said to him, Inquire, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether the journey in which we are engaged will be prosperous.

⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold; the workmanship of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth but cannot speak: though they have eyes, they cannot see. ⁶ Ears they have, but they cannot hear: having nostrils they cannot smell. ⁷ They have hands but they cannot feel: They have feet, but they cannot walk: nor can they utter a sound with their throat. ⁸ Let them who make them be like them; and all who have trusted in them.

¹⁸ to whom have you likened the Lord? and to what likeness have you compared him? ¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him? ²⁰ for the carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved. ²¹ Will you not know? will you not hear? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not known the foundations of the earth? ²² He it is, who occupieth the circuit of the earth; and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, who established the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to be dwelt in; ²³ who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: and hath made the earth as a mere nothing. ²⁴ For they could not plant nor could they sow, nor could their root strike into the ground; he blew upon them and they withered, and a whirlwind will sweep them away like stubble. ²⁵ Now therefore to whom have you likened me; that I may be exalted? said the Holy One.

⁹ And have not then the fashioners and engravers heard? They are all fools making things to please their fancies; things which cannot profit them: but shame shall cover these god makers, ¹⁰ and all the engravers of these useless things. ¹¹ When all by whom they were made are dried up; then let all the stupid among men be collected and stand together, and let them be confounded and ashamed together: ¹² for the carpenter sharpened an axe, with a hatchet he modelled it; then he put it into a lathe and with his strong arm fashioned it. Though he be hungry and faint, he must not drink water. ¹³ The carpenters having chosen a piece of wood framed it by rule and glued the parts together, and made it in the form of a man and with the comeliness of a man, to set it in a house. ¹⁴ He cut wood from the forest which the Lord planted; a pine tree, which the rain had nourished, ¹⁵ that it might be fuel for the use of man: and having taken some of it he warmed himself; and with other pieces they made a fire and baked cakes, and of the residue they made gods and worshipped them. ¹⁶ Did he not burn half of it in the fire, and, with the coals of that half, bake cakes; and having roasted meat with it did he not eat and was satisfied; and when warmed say, "Aha! I am warmed, I have enjoyed the fire?" ¹⁷ Yet of the residue he made a carve god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, saying, "Deliver me, for thou art my God." ¹⁸ They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts: ¹⁹ nor did any reason in his mind, nor by his understanding recollect, that he had burned half of it in the fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; so they bow themselves down to it. ²⁰ Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they are led astray and none can deliver his soul. Take a view of it, will you not say, "There is indeed a lie in my right hand?"

³ As for the wicked man, who sacrificeth to me a young bull: he is one who slayeth a dog: and though he offereth me fine flour: it will be as the blood of swine. Though he offereth incense for a memorial, he is as a blasphemer. As they have chosen their own ways: and their soul hath delighted in their abominations:

³ because the ordinances of the nations are vain. Timber is cut from the forest: ⁴ a carpenter's work and a molten image are adorned with silver and gold. Having fastened them with mallets and nails they will place them and they are not to be moved. ⁵ They are silver which can be turned in a lathe; they cannot walk.

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¹⁸ Of what avail is a graven thing, that they have engraved it? Did one cause a molten mass, a false fantasy, to be cast, because the caster had a confidence that by casting he would make dumb idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who saith to Wood, Awake; arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fantasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no breath in it.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God.