Isaiah 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 2:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. …
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

The calling in of the Gentiles was accompanied with the rejection of the Jews; it was their fall, and the diminishing of them, that was the riches of the Gentiles; and the casting off of them was the reconciling of the world (Rom. 11:12-15); and it should seem that these verses have reference to that, and are designed to justify God therein, and yet it is probable that they are primarily intended…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. (Ho 8:4). Not so much public idolatry, which was not sanctioned in Uzziah’s and Jotham’s reign, but (see 2Ki 15:4, 35) as private.