So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hand and the rings in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem.
Isaiah 2:20 - Tree of Life Version In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made to worship, to the moles and to the bats! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In that day men shall cast away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, American Standard Version (1901) In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats; Common English Bible On that day, people will toss to the rodents and to the bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship. Catholic Public Domain Version In that day, man shall cast aside his idols of silver and his images of gold, which he had made for himself, as if to reverence the moles and the bats. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats. |
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hand and the rings in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem.
a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard;
What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to what his fingers have made—neither the Asherah poles nor the sun-images.
You will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your metal images covered with gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. You will say, “Be gone!”
For in that day everyone will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which you made for yourselves with your hands of sin.
To an idol? A craftsman casts it, a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
Bel bows down; Nebo stoops over. Their idols are for beasts and cattle. The things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
They lavish gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith so he makes a god. They bow down. Yes, they worship it.
Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: “Return, turn away from your idols; turn your faces from all your abominations.
Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.
They will throw their silver in the streets. Their gold will be as garbage. Their silver and their gold cannot deliver them in the day of Adonai’s wrath. They will not satisfy their appetite or fill their bellies, for their iniquity is a stumbling block.
Those dwelling in his shadow will return. They will grow grain and bud like a vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Adonai will be fearsome against them. For all the gods of the earth He will make waste away. To Him will bow, each from its place, the islands of the nations.
’Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’