Isaiah 44:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Isaiah 44:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Acts 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
1 Kings 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 9-20)

Often before, God, by the prophet, had mentioned the folly and strange sottishness of idolaters; but here he enlarges upon that head, and very fully and particularly exposes them to contempt and ridicule. This discourse is intended, 1. To arm the people of Israel against the strong temptation they would be in to worship idols when they were captives in Babylon, in compliance with the custom of the…

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

(vv. 10)

10. Who ... ?--Sarcastic question: “How debased the man must be who forms a god!” It is a contradiction in terms. A made god, worshipped by its maker (1Co 8:4)!