Isaiah 44:13

Modern English Version

The carpenter stretches out his measuring line; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.

Genesis 31:30

Now you surely have gone away because you longed desperately after your father’s house, yet why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

But anyone with whom you find your gods, let him not live. In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have that is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Isaiah 41:7

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying, “It is ready for the soldering”; and he fastened it with nails so that it should not totter.

Isaiah 44:14

He hews down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he raises for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and saw every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall all around.

Ezekiel 8:11

There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

Acts 17:29

“Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art or an image of the reflection of man.

Romans 1:23

They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed is the man who makes any graven or molded image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place.” And all the people shall answer and say, “Amen.”

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Judges 18:24

He said, “You took the gods that I made, and the priest, and then you left. What do I have left? So what is this that you say to me, ‘What is wrong?’ ”