Habakkuk 2:18

Lighthouse Bible 2006

What does the sculptured image profit, that its maker has carved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Cross References

Psalm 97:7

Let all those who serve sculptured images be put to shame, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all you gods.

Isaiah 1:31

And the strong shall be as flax, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

Isaiah 37:38

And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adram-melech and Sharezer his sons struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.

Isaiah 40:19

The workman melts a sculptured image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

Isaiah 41:26

Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforehand, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows us, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in sculptured images, that say to the molten images, You are our gods.

Isaiah 44:12

The blacksmith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.

Isaiah 45:16

They shall be ashamed, and also perplexed, all of them: they shall go in confusion together that are makers of idols.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their sculptured image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether stupid and foolish: the tree trunk is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare ye among the nations, and annuonce, and set up a standard; announce, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is astonished, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are put to shame, her images are broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 51:17

Every man is stupid by his knowledge; every metal worker is put to shame by the sculptured image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Daniel 5:23

But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:

Amos 2:4

Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked:

Jonah 2:8

Those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Zechariah 10:2

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way like a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, even as you were led.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were thrown alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Judges 17:4

Yet he restored the money to his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the metal founder, who made thereof a sculptured image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn not aside: for then would you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.