2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as though He were like the man-made gods of the nations. It matters because they failed to recognize Him as the living Creator.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Kgs 19:18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Isa 2:8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
• Jer 10:3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
• Jer 10:9Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
• Deut 4:28And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
• Deut 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
• 1 Sam 17:36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• 2 Chr 6:6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
• 2 Chr 32:13–17Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
• Isa 37:19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Isa 14:32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
• Isa 44:16–20He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
• Job 15:25–26For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
• Hos 8:5–6Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
• Heb 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• Ps 139:19–20Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
• Ps 10:13–14Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
• Ps 73:8–11They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
• Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
• Ps 76:1–2In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
• Ps 87:1–3His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jer 1:16And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jer 32:30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

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