Habakkuk 2:19 Cross References
Habakkuk 2:19
19: How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.
Psalms 135:17
- They cannot hear with their ears or smell with their noses.
Jeremiah 10:4
- They decorate it with gold and silver and then fasten it securely with hammer and nails so it won't fall over.
Jeremiah 10:9
- They bring beaten sheets of silver from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz, and they give these materials to skillful craftsmen who make their idols. Then they dress these gods in royal purple robes made by expert tailors.
1 Kings 18:26
- So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal all morning, shouting, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced wildly around the altar they had made.
- About noontime Elijah began mocking them. "You'll have to shout louder," he scoffed, "for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or he is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or he is asleep and needs to be wakened!"
- So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.
- They raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice, but still there was no reply, no voice, no answer.
Daniel 5:23
- For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Psalms 97:7
- Those who worship idols are disgraced--all who brag about their worthless gods--for every god must bow to him.
Daniel 3:7
- So at the sound of the musical instruments, all the people, whatever their race or nation or language, bowed to the ground and worshiped the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Jeremiah 51:47
- For the time is surely coming when I will punish this great city and all her idols. Her whole land will be disgraced, and her dead will lie in the streets.
Acts 17:29
- And since this is true, we shouldn't think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.
Daniel 3:29
- Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be crushed into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this!"
Jonah 1:5
- Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. And all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.
Isaiah 44:17
- Then he takes what's left and makes his god: a carved idol! He falls down in front of it, worshiping and praying to it. "Rescue me!" he says. "You are my god!"
Revelation 17:4
- The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. She held in her hand a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality.
Daniel 3:1
- King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
Isaiah 46:6
- Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
Jeremiah 10:14
- Compared to him, all people are foolish and have no knowledge at all! They make idols, but the idols will disgrace their makers, for they are frauds. They have no life or power in them.
Isaiah 40:19
- Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?
Daniel 3:18
- But even if he doesn't, Your Majesty can be sure that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up."