Isaiah 46:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 46

⁶They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Isaiah 46:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Isaiah 40:19-20
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. …
Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Jeremiah 10:3-4
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. …
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver 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 is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

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Adultery Balances Coin Finances Gentiles Gods Groves Heathen

Commentary

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

(vv. 5-13)

The deliverance of Israel by the destruction of Babylon (the general subject of all these chapters) is here insisted upon, and again promised, for the conviction both of idolaters who set up as rivals with God, and of oppressors who were enemies to the people of God. I. For the conviction of those who made and worshipped idols, especially those of Israel who did so, who would have images of their…

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

(vv. 6)

6. (Is 40:19, 20; 41:7.) They lavish gold out of their purses and spare no expense for their idol. Their profuseness shames the niggardliness of professors who worship God with what cost them nothing. Sin is always a costly service.