I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
- KJV Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
- NKJV Your carved images I will also cut off, And your sacred pillars from your midst; You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
- NASB “I will eliminate your carved images And your memorial stones from among you, So that you will no longer bow down To the work of your hands.
- NLT I will destroy all your idols and sacred pillars, so you will never again worship the work of your own hands.
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Quick answer
God will destroy idols and sacred pillars so the people no longer worship what their hands have made. It promises the end of idolatry.
Overview
Carved images and standing stones, the objects of false worship, will be cut off. The goal is that God's people 'no more worship the work of your hands.' This cleansing restores the exclusive worship of Yahweh that the first commandments require.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
- Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Isa 17:7–8In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
- Hos 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- Isa 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
- Ezek 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Hos 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Zech 13:2And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
- Hos 2:16–17In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer call Me ‘my Master.’
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