Jeremiah 10:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

They decorate it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it does not move.

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  • Isa 40:19-20 : 19 The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains. 20 He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.
  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They carry him upon the shoulder, they bear him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he shall not move: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  • Isa 44:12 : 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.
  • Ps 115:4 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
  • Ps 135:15 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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    3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

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    5They stand upright like a palm tree, but do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot go. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    19The workman molds a graven image, the goldsmith covers it with gold and casts silver chains.

    20He who is so impoverished that he has no offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not be moved.

  • Isa 41:7
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    7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

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    5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

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  • Ezek 15:3
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    3Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon?

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

    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 are their clothing: they are all the work of skilled men.

  • Exod 36:36
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    36And he made four pillars of acacia wood for it, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were gold, and he cast four silver sockets for them.

  • Exod 26:32
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    32And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

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    6They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

    7They carry him upon the shoulder, they bear him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he shall not move: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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    14He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Hab 2:19
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    19Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

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    8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
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    5And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

  • Exod 37:3-4
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    3And he cast four rings of gold for it, to be set at its four corners; two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side.

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    15Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

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    28And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

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    5And you shall make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

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    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

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    4To devise skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

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    12And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners; two rings shall be on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

    13And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

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    22Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it: all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.

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    10Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

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    23And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

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    19Their pillars were four, and their sockets of bronze four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands of silver.

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    4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

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    18Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

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    38And its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold: but their five sockets were bronze.

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    9Whoso removes stones shall be hurt by them; and he who splits wood shall be endangered by it.

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    28And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

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    10It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree.

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    11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.

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    15And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

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