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.
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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.
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. …
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
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. …
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.
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…
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