Isaiah 44:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:19

Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

Job 39:14

That she puts her eggs on the earth, warming them in the dust,

Isaiah 44:15

Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

Isaiah 44:17

And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

Isaiah 47:14

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.