Isaiah 46:1

God's Word

The god Bel bows down; the god Nebo stoops low. Their statues are seated on animals and cattle. The gods that you carry are burdens, a load for weary people.

Cross References

Job 39:11

Can you trust it just because it’s so strong or leave your labor to it?

Exodus 12:12

“On that same night I will go throughout Egypt and kill every firstborn male, both human and animal. I will severely punish all the gods of Egypt, ⌞because⌟ I am the Lord.

Isaiah 2:18

Then idols will disappear completely.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw to the moles and the bats the silver and gold idols that they made for themselves to worship.

Isaiah 21:9

Look! Here come chariots and horsemen in pairs.” Then he said, “Babylon has fallen! It has fallen! All the idols they worship lie shattered on the ground.”

Isaiah 30:6

This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev. “My people travel through lands where they experience distress and hardship. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that can’t help them.

Isaiah 45:20

Come here, you refugees from the nations. Ignorant people carry wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save ⌞anyone⌟.

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it on their shoulders and carry it. They set the idol in its place, and it stands there. It doesn’t move from its place. If they cry to it for help, it can’t answer. It can’t rescue them from their distress.

Jeremiah 10:5

These trees are like scarecrows in cucumber gardens. They aren’t able to speak. They have to be carried, because they can’t walk. Don’t be afraid of them. They can’t harm you. They can’t do you any good either.

Jeremiah 50:2

“Announce this among the nations, and spread the news. Raise a flag, and announce it. Don’t hide anything. Say, ‘Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be filled with terror. Babylon’s statues will be put to shame. Its idols will be filled with terror.’

Jeremiah 50:38

A drought will diminish their water supply, and it will dry up. Babylon is a land of idols, statues that will go crazy with fear.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed. Nations will no longer stream to Babylon, and its walls will fall.

Jeremiah 51:47

That is why the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s idols. The whole country will be put to shame, and all its soldiers will lie dead.

Jeremiah 51:52

“That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish their idols, and those who are wounded will moan everywhere in the land.

Daniel 11:8

He will take the metal statues of their gods and their precious utensils of silver and gold back to Egypt. He will rule for more years than the northern king.

Daniel 3:14

Nebuchadnezzar asked them, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you don’t honor my gods or worship the gold statue that I set up?

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has given this command about you, Nineveh: You will no longer have descendants to carry on your name. I will remove the wooden and metal idols from the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave because you are worthless.

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, Baal Meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. These are the names they gave the cities they rebuilt.

Matthew 23:4

They make loads that are hard to carry and lay them on the shoulders of the people. However, they are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

1 Samuel 5:3

Early the next day the people of Ashdod saw that Dagon had fallen forward on the ground in front of the Lord’s ark. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.