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Psalms 135:15
15Other nations make idols with silver and gold. People worship things that they have made with their hands!
Psalms 135:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- New International Version (NIV)The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.
Context of Psalms 135:15
13Lord, people will always remember your name. You will always be famous. 14The Lord shows that his people are right. He is kind to those who serve him. Other nations make idols with silver and gold. People worship things that they have made with their hands! 16Their idols have mouths, but they cannot speak! They have eyes, but they cannot see! 17They have ears, but they cannot hear! They cannot even breathe!
Read all of Psalms 135Psalms 135:15 word by word
עֲצַבֵּ֣י הַ֭גּוֹיִם כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 135:15
- Psalms 115:4Those people's idols are made from silver and gold. Yes, human hands make them!
- Deuteronomy 4:28Among those nations, you will worship gods that men have made from wood and stone. Those gods cannot see or hear or eat or smell anything.
- Isaiah 37:19They threw the gods of these nations into the fire. Those idols are not really gods. People used wood and stone to make them. So the Assyrians could destroy them.
- Isaiah 40:19A worker may use special skill to make an idol. Another worker may cover it with gold. He may use silver chains to make it beautiful.
- Isaiah 44:9All the people who make idols are fools. The images which make them so happy are useless. Those who worship idols cannot see the truth. They do not understand what they are doing, and they will be ashamed.
- Isaiah 46:6Some people make idols for themselves. They pour out gold coins from their purse. They weigh silver on their scales. They pay a worker with special skill to use the silver and the gold to make a god. Then they bend down low in front of it, and they worship it!
- Jeremiah 10:3The customs of those people are useless. They cut down a tree in the forest. A worker uses his tools to make it into an idol.
- Habakkuk 2:18What value does an idol have? What help can it give? Somebody has made it as the image of a false god. It can only tell false messages. Why should its maker trust it for help? He has used wood or metal to make it and it cannot speak!
- Acts 17:29So, because we are God's children, we should not think that he is a thing like an idol. Clever people use gold or silver or stone to make images of gods. But God is not like these things that people choose to make for themselves.
Commentaries on Psalms 135:15
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psalmist instituted a comparison between him and idols, showing that the gods worshipped by the pagan lacked every ground of claim to divine worship and homage. They were, after all that could be done to fashion, to decorate, and to adorn them, nothing but silver and gold, and could have no better claim to worship than…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-21Verses 15-21 These verses arm believers against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods the heathen worshipped. And the more deplorable the condition of the Gentile nations that worship idols, the more are we to be thankful that we know better. Let us pity, and pray for, and seek to benefit benighted heathens and deluded sinners. Let us endeavour to glorify his name, and recommend his truth, not only with our lips, but by holy lives…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-18Idols lead people to think wrongly because they are only things humans make. They cannot speak, see, hear, or breathe (Isaiah 41:22–24; 44:9, 18; Romans 1:21–23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1815-18. (Compare Psa 115:4-8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 135
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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