Habakkuk 2:18

An idol is worthless because it is merely the crafted work of its maker, a teacher of lies in which people foolishly trust. It exposes the utter futility of trusting man-made gods.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 10:8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
• 1 Cor 12:2Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
• Isa 44:9–10They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
• Zech 10:2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
• Jer 2:27–28Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• Isa 42:17They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Isa 45:16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jonah 2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Isa 45:20Assemble 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.
• 2 Th 2:9–11Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Jer 10:14–15Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Rom 1:23–25And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
• Jer 50:2Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
• Isa 37:38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
• Isa 1:31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
• Rev 13:11–15And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
• Isa 46:6–8They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
• Jer 10:3–5For 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.
• 1 Tim 4:1–2Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
• Rom 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• Isa 44:14–20He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
• Rev 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
• Isa 46:1–2Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

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