Isaiah 44:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:4-5 : 4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she took two hundred pieces of silver to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. 5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.
  • Ps 115:5-7 : 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see, 6 ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell, 7 hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.
  • Isa 41:7 : 7 The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.”
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 He said to me,“Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think,‘The LORD does not see us! The LORD has abandoned the land!’”
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
  • Judg 18:24 : 24 He said,“You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me,‘What do you want?’”
  • Gen 31:19 : 19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
  • Gen 31:32 : 32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
  • Gen 35:2 : 2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him,“Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
  • Exod 20:4-5 : 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Deut 4:16-18 : 16 I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female, 17 any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky, 18 anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 ‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image– something abhorrent to the LORD, the work of the craftsman– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 44:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

    12 A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.

  • Isa 44:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.

    15 A man uses it to make a fire; he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

  • Exod 35:32-33
    2 verses
    74%

    32 to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

    33 and in cutting stones for their setting, and in cutting wood, to do work in every artistic craft.

  • Exod 31:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in skill, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

    4 to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

    5 and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

  • Isa 41:7
    72%

    7 The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, and nails it down so it won’t fall over.”

  • Isa 40:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

    20 To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    71%

    6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

    14 He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    70%

    11 They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair.

  • Exod 35:35
    70%

    35 He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all the work and artistic designers.

  • Ezek 41:17
    70%

    17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

  • Ezek 40:5
    69%

    5 I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    69%

    15 You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

  • Zech 1:20
    69%

    20 Next the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.

  • 2 Chr 2:7
    69%

    7 “Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and blue colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem and Judah, whom my father David provided.

  • 1 Kgs 6:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

    7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

  • Job 38:5
    68%

    5 Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    68%

    9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

  • Ezek 40:3
    68%

    3 When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

  • 2 Chr 2:14
    68%

    14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, blue, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.

  • Ezek 15:3
    67%

    3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

  • Ezek 41:13
    67%

    13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

  • 1 Kgs 7:35-36
    2 verses
    67%

    35 On top of each stand was a round opening three-quarters of a foot deep; there were also supports and frames on top of the stands.

    36 He engraved ornamental cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

  • Jer 10:3-4
    2 verses
    67%

    3 For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.

    4 He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over.

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    67%

    18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

  • Exod 36:1
    67%

    1 So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the LORD has put skill and ability to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary are to do the work according to all that the LORD has commanded.”

  • Zech 2:1
    67%

    1 Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

  • Ezek 43:10
    67%

    10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35
    67%

    35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    66%

    11 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons. They built a palace for David.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
    66%

    12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses.

  • Ps 74:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5 They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

    6 And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    66%

    2 David Orders a Temple to Be Built David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

  • Exod 25:9
    66%

    9 According to all that I am showing you– the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings– you must make it exactly so.

  • Prov 24:27
    66%

    27 Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    66%

    5 He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.

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