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2Ki 19:18 — And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

have cast		Heb. have given. 2Sa 5:21; Isa 46:1,2
for they were		Psa 115:4-8; Isa 37:18,19; Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-9,14-16; Act 17:29

Correlating Passages

have cast

	2Sa 5:21	And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
	Isa 46:1	Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were] heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast].
	Isa 46:2	They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

for they were

	Psa 115:4	Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
	Psa 115:5	They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
	Psa 115:6	They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
	Psa 115:7	They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
	Psa 115:8	They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
	Isa 37:18	Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
	Isa 37:19	And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
	Isa 44:9	They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
	Isa 44:10	Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
	Isa 44:11	Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.
	Isa 44:12	The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
	Isa 44:13	The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
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	Jer 10:3	For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
	Jer 10:4	They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
	Jer 10:5	They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
	Jer 10:6	Forasmuch as [there is] none like unto thee, O LORD; thou [art] great, and thy name [is] great in might.
	Jer 10:7	Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise [men] of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, [there is] none like unto thee.
	Jer 10:8	But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
	Jer 10:9	Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men].
	Jer 10:14	Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
	Jer 10:15	They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
	Jer 10:16	The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
	Act 17:29	Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Kings 19:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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