Isaiah 46:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The gods Bel and Nebo are down on their knees, as wooden images of them are carried away on weary animals.

Cross References

Job 39:11

Can you depend on him to use his great strength and do your heavy work?

Exodus 12:12

That same night I will pass through Egypt and kill the firstborn son in every family and the firstborn male of all animals. I am the LORD, and I will punish the gods of Egypt.

Isaiah 2:18

Idols will be gone for good.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day everyone will throw to the rats and bats their idols of silver and gold they made to worship.

Isaiah 21:9

Now I see column after column of cavalry troops.” Straight away someone shouted, “Babylon has fallen! Every idol in the city lies broken on the ground.”

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals of the Southern Desert: you people carry treasures on donkeys and camels. You travel to a feeble nation through a troublesome desert filled with lions and flying fiery dragons.

Isaiah 45:20

to every survivor from every nation: “Gather around me! Learn how senseless it is to worship wooden idols or pray to helpless gods.

Isaiah 46:7

They carry the idol on their shoulders, then put it on a stand, but it cannot move. They call out to the idol when they are in trouble, but it doesn't answer, and it cannot help.

Jeremiah 10:5

An idol is no better than a scarecrow. It can't speak, and it has to be carried, because it can't walk. Why worship an idol that can't help or harm you?

Jeremiah 50:38

Your rivers and canals will dry up. All this will happen, because your land is full of idols, and they have made fools of you.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Marduk, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit everything he gobbled up. Then nations will no longer bring him gifts, and Babylon's walls will crumble.

Jeremiah 51:47

The time will come when I will punish Babylon's false gods. Everyone there will die, and the whole nation will be disgraced,

Jeremiah 51:52

Soon I will send a war to punish Babylon's idols and leave its wounded people moaning everywhere.

Daniel 11:8

Then he will carry their idols to Egypt, together with their precious treasures of silver and gold, but it will be a long time before he attacks the northern kingdom again. Some years later

Daniel 3:14

“I hear that you refuse to worship my gods and the gold statue I have set up.

Nahum 1:14

Assyria, this is what else the LORD says to you: “Your name will be forgotten. I will destroy every idol in your temple, and I will send you to the grave, because you are worthless.”

Numbers 32:38

Sibmah, as well as the towns that used to be known as Nebo and Baal-Meon. They renamed all those places.

Matthew 23:4

They pile heavy burdens on people's shoulders and won't lift a finger to help.

1 Samuel 5:3

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, they found the statue lying face down on the floor in front of the sacred chest. They put the statue back where it belonged.