2 Kings 19:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And have cast the gods of those peoples into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they [could destroy and] have destroyed them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The Assyrians burned the gods of those nations with fire because they aren’t real gods. They are only man-made creations of wood and stone. That’s how the Assyrians could destroy them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men's hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but the works of men's hands of wood and stone: and they destroyed them.

2 Kings 19:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:21

And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

2 Kings 10:26

and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal, and burned it.

2 Kings 19:17

Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Jeremiah 16:20

Can man make for himself gods? Such are no gods!”

Acts 17:29

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.