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 together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
• 1 Cor 12:2You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
• Isa 44:9–10Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
• Zech 10:2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
• Jer 2:27–28who tell wood, ‘You are my father;’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me:’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us.’
• Isa 42:17“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Isa 45:16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jonah 2:8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Isa 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
• 2 Th 2:9–11even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Jer 10:14–15Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Rom 1:23–25and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
• Jer 50:2“Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’
• Isa 37:38As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
• Isa 1:31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
• Rev 13:11–15I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
• Isa 46:6–8Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.
• Jer 10:3–5For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
• 1 Tim 4:1–2But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• Isa 44:14–20He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.
• Rev 19:20The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
• Isa 46:1–2Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.

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