Isaiah 2:20

New Century Version

At that time people will throw away their gold and silver idols, which they made for themselves to worship; they will throw them away to the bats and moles.

Cross References

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had, and the earrings they were wearing, and he hid them under the great tree near the town of Shechem.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

There is a time to look for something and a time to stop looking for it. There is a time to keep things and a time to throw things away.

Isaiah 10:3

How will you explain the things you have done? What will you do when your destruction comes from far away? Where will you run for help? Where will you hide your riches then?

Isaiah 17:8

They will not trust the altars they have made, nor will they trust what their hands have made, not even the Asherah idols and altars.

Isaiah 30:22

You have statues covered with silver and gold, but you will ruin them for further use. You will throw them away like filthy rags and say, “Go away!”

Isaiah 31:7

The time is coming when each of you will stop worshiping idols of gold and silver, which you sinned by making.

Isaiah 40:19

An idol is formed by a craftsman, and a goldsmith covers it with gold and makes silver chains for it.

Isaiah 46:1

Bel and Nebo bow down. Their idols are carried by animals. The statues are only heavy loads that must be carried; they only make people tired.

Isaiah 46:6

Some people are rich with gold and weigh their silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god. Then they bow down and worship it.

Ezekiel 14:6

“So say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Change your hearts and lives, and stop worshiping idols. Stop doing all the things I hate.

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Ezekiel 7:19

The people will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like trash. Their silver and gold will not save them from the Lord’s anger. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, because it caused them to fall into sin.

Hosea 14:8

Israel, have nothing to do with idols. I, the Lord, am the one who answers your prayers and watches over you. I am like a green pine tree; your blessings come from me.”

Leviticus 11:19

storks, any kind of heron, hoopoes, or bats.

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will frighten them, because he will destroy all the gods of the earth. Then everyone in faraway places will worship him wherever they are.

Luke 23:30

Then people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ And they will say to the hills, ‘Cover us!’