Isaiah 44:13

Tree of Life Version

A carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it with a pencil; he shapes it with planes; he marks it with a compass; he shapes it like the figure of a man —like the beauty of a man— so that it may sit in a shrine.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

But while Laban went to shear his flocks, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father,

Genesis 31:30

So now, when you up and left because you really missed your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In front of our relatives, identify whatever is yours that is with me, and take it back.” (But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Cleanse yourselves and change your clothes.

Isaiah 41:7

The craftsman encourages the smith, who smooths with the hammer, who strikes with the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It’s good!” as he fastens it with nails so that it will not totter.

Isaiah 44:14

He chops down cedars for himself, or he takes a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine and rain nourishes it.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and saw, behold, every detestable image of creeping things and beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the surrounding walls.

Ezekiel 8:11

Standing there before them were 70 men of the elders of the house of Israel, Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in their midst, each man with his censer in his hand. A thick cloud of incense went up.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me: “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chamber of his carved idol? For they say, ‘Adonai does not see us. Adonai has forsaken the land.’”

Acts 17:29

Since we are His offspring, we ought not to suppose the Deity is like gold or silver or stone, an engraved image of human art and imagination.

Romans 1:23

They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image in the form of mortal man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

Deuteronomy 27:15

‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molten image—an abomination to Adonai, the work of a craftsman’s hands—and sets it up in secret.’ Then all the people are to answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which do not see or hear or eat or smell.

Judges 18:24

“You have taken away my gods which I made,” he said, “and the priest, and walked away! What do I have left? And how then do you say to me, ‘What’s the matter with you?’”