1 Kings 18:27
27And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”1 Kings 18:29
29And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of athe offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.Psalms 115:4-7
4 bTheir idols are silver and gold,cthe work of human hands.
5They have mouths, dbut do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
Isaiah 41:23
23 eTell us what is to come hereafter,that we may know that you are gods;
fdo good, or do harm,
that we may be dismayed and terrified. ▼
▼Or that we may both be dismayed and see
Isaiah 46:1
The Idols of Babylon and the One True God
1 hBel bows down; Nebo stoops;their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
Isaiah 46:7
7 iThey lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,they set it in its place, and it stands there;
jit cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
Jeremiah 10:5
5Their idols ▼▼Hebrew They
are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,and lthey cannot speak;
mthey have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
nfor they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”
Jeremiah 10:11
11Thus shall you say to them: o“The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth pshall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” ▼▼This verse is in Aramaic
1 Corinthians 8:4
4Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that r“an idol has no real existence,” and that s“there is no God but one.”
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