Idol: Made of Wood and Stone

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. …

When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.