Jer 10:3-5, Hos 8:6, Hab 2:18-20, Act 19:26, 35, 1Cor 10:19-20 | ESV | STEP | for the customs of the peoples are vanity . A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman .

j[See ver. 5 above]

k[Mic. 1:6, 7]

m Isa. 44:10

n Jer. 10:8, 14; Zech. 10:2

o Ps. 115:5; 1 Cor. 12:2

p ver. 6, 9, 12, 15

qSee 1 Kgs. 18:26, 27

r Ps. 135:17; Jer. 10:14

s Ps. 11:4; Mic. 1:2

t[Zeph. 1:7; Zech. 2:13]

u ch. 14:15; 17:29; 1 Cor. 8:4

v Deut. 4:28; 2 Kgs. 19:18; Ps. 115:4; Isa. 44:10-20; Jer. 10:3-6; Rev. 9:20

w[ch. 14:12]

ySee ch. 8:4

z Deut. 32:17

Jeremiah 10:3-5

3 ^afor the customs of the peoples are vanity. ^{▼▼Or vapor, or mist}
^cA tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
4 ^dThey decorate it with silver and gold;
^ethey fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
5 Their idols ^{▼▼Hebrew They} are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and ^gthey cannot speak;
^hthey have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
ⁱfor they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”

Hosea 8:6

6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
^jThe calf of Samaria
^kshall be broken to pieces. ^{▼▼Or shall go up in flames}

Habakkuk 2:18-20

18 ^m“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, ⁿa teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes ^ospeechless idols!
19 ^pWoe to him ^qwho says to a wooden thing, Awake;
to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
and ^rthere is no breath at all in it.
20 But ^sthe Lord is in his holy temple;
^tlet all the earth keep silence before him.”

Acts 19:26

26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, ^usaying that ^vgods made with hands are not gods.

Acts 19:35

35 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from ^wthe sky? ^{▼▼The meaning of the Greek is uncertain}

1 Corinthians 10:19-20

19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that ^yan idol is anything? 20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^zthey offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.