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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God, I know not any. “There is no God” in the world but Jehovah, the one living and true God whom we adore. Now follows that very wonderful passage descriptive of the making of idols, which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity,.... They show themselves to be vain men, by making such vain things as graven images are; both images, makers, and worshippers of them are all vain, yea vanity itself: and their delectable things shall not profit; their idols made of gold and silver, or covered with them, and adorned with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that made 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. Who hath formed a god, The very question is absurd.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; They must be very empty-headed and foolish people, or they would not worship a thing which they have graven with their own hands. Isa_44:9. And their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. Idolaters are just as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who hath formed a god,.... Who ever made one? was such a thing ever known? or can that be a god which is made or formed? who so mad, foolish and sottish, as to imagine he has made a god? or is it possible for a creature to be the maker of a god? or any so stupid as to fancy he had made one? yet such there were, so void of understanding and reason,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Behold all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: Doth man make God? What kind of a god must that be that man can make?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed,.... Either such who join with them in the worship of the molten graven image, or god formed, when they find it is profitable for nothing; so the Targum, "behold all their worshippers shall be confounded;'' or their fellow workmen, who took their several parts in making the image, and so must be conscious...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. This maker of a god is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The smith with the tongs,.... Or, "the worker of iron" (c); the blacksmith, who had a concern in making of idols, for some were made of iron, Daniel 5:4, or in making plates to cover them, or nails to fasten them with, or instruments which the carpenter made use of in cutting down trees, and fitting the wood for an image; such as the axe or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: What irony! God-making, with hammers and bellows! Isa_44:12. Yea, he is hungry, This god-maker is hungry! Isa_44:12. And his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. The god-maker is getting faint. There is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. That is one of these god-makers, you see; a man who makes an idol god, yet who himself gets thirsty by reason of the heat of the coals in his forge....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule,.... Or, the worker of trees (e); that works in wood, or makes images of wood; having cut down a tree, he stretches out his rule or line upon it, and takes the dimensions of it, and measures the length and the breadth of it, as much as is for his purpose to make a god of: and then he maketh it out with a line;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule, he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. A god in the house! A god shut up in a room! A god that has been made with compasses and planes! How...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The carpenter stretched out his rule; he marketh it out with a line he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak which he strengtheneth for himself among the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. Fancy a god-maker with his rule and his line, his planes and his compasses! What fine irony there is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak,.... To make gods of, trees both pleasant and durable, but all unfruitful: which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest; taking a great deal of pains in seeking out such trees as were most fit for his use, and a great deal of care in the growth of them, that they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He 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. The raw material for a god is an ash, a watery tree: “The rain doth nourish it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He 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. The forest is growing stuff to make gods with out of ash, and oak, and cedar, and cypress.