1Sa 12:21, 2Ki 17:15, Psa 31:6, Jer 2:13, 10:8, 14-15, 16:19 | ESV | STEP | And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver , for they are empty .

a[See ver. 20 above]

1 Samuel 12:21

21 And ^ado not turn aside after ^bempty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

2 Kings 17:15

15 They despised his statutes ^cand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^dfalse idols ^eand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^fLord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Psalms 31:6

6 I ^ghate ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate} those who pay ⁱregard to worthless ^jidols,
but I trust in the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:13

13 for my people have committed two evils:
^kthey have forsaken ^lme,
the fountain of ^mliving waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 10:8

8 ⁿThey are both ^ostupid and foolish;
the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 10:14-15

14 ^pEvery man is stupid and without knowledge;
^qevery goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
^rand there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 16:19

19 ^sO Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
^tmy refuge in the day of trouble,
^uto you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
^vworthless things in which there is no profit.