Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good." Cross References 1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made. Psalm 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; Psalm 115:7 they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats. Isaiah 41:23 Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay. Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. Isaiah 44:10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save. Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal. Isaiah 46:7 They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles. Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. Treasury of Scripture They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. speak. Psalm 115:5-8 Psalm 135:16-18 Habakkuk 2:19 be borne. Isaiah 46:1,7 do evil. Isaiah 41:23,24 Isaiah 44:9,10 Isaiah 45:20 |