Jeremiah 10:4

World English Bible (2000)

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 40:19-20 : 19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it. 20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
  • Isa 44:12 : 12 The blacksmith takes an axe, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.
  • Ps 115:4 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
  • Ps 135:15 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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  • Jer 10:3
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    3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

  • Jer 10:5
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    5They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good."

  • Isa 40:19-20
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    19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

    20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

  • Isa 41:7
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    7So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

  • Ps 74:5-6
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    5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

    6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Ezek 15:3
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    3Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

  • Ps 115:4
    73%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Jer 10:8-9
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    72%

    8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

    9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

  • Exod 36:36
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    36He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.

  • Exod 26:32
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    32You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

  • Isa 46:6-7
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    71%

    6Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.

    7They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Hab 2:19
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    19Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • Isa 2:8
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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.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    71%

    5The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

  • Exod 37:3-4
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    3He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.

    4He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

  • Exod 37:28
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    28He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

  • Exod 30:5
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    5You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

  • Ezek 7:19-20
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    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

    20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

  • Isa 22:25
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    25"In that day," says Yahweh of Armies, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it."

  • Exod 25:36
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    36Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

  • Ps 115:7-8
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    7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

    8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Exod 31:4
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    4to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

  • Exod 25:12-13
    2 verses
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    12You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

    13You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

  • Exod 37:22
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    22Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

  • Isa 44:10
    69%

    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Isa 22:23
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    23I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father's house.

  • Exod 38:19
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    19Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

  • Hos 8:4
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    4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

  • Exod 25:31
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    31"You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

  • Exod 36:34
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    34He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

  • Ps 135:18
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    18Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

  • Exod 36:38
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    38and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of brass.

  • Eccl 10:9
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    9Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.

  • Exod 25:28
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    28You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

  • Jer 10:15
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    15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Ezek 21:10
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    10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

  • Exod 37:11
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    11He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.

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    15He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

  • Dan 4:14
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    14He cried aloud, and said thus, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.