Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 44:10 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who is [such a fool as] to fashion a god or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing? American Standard Version (1901) Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? Common English Bible Who would form a god or cast an idol that does no good? Catholic Public Domain Version Who has formed a god or cast a molten image, which is useful for nothing? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who hath formed a god, and made a graven thing that is profitable for nothing? |
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Nebuchadnez´zar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Nebuchadnez´zar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed´nego? do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.