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Isaiah 46:2 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for Isaiah 46:2 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Isaiah chapter 46 verse 2 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. themselves: Heb. their soul”
Isaiah 46:2 (KJV)
Commentary on Isaiah 46:2
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden. Isaiah employs devastating irony to expose idolatry's futility. The verbs qara' (stoop) and shachach (bow down) typically describe worshipers before deities, yet here describe the gods themselves collapsing under their own weight. The idols Bel and Nebo (v. 1), Babylon's chief deities, require human carriers and cannot even preserve themselves from toppling."They could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity" inverts the worshiper-deity relationship. Instead of gods delivering devotees from captivity,...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Isaiah 46:2
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“because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures”
“and came in there”
“And there they left their images”
“you have taken away my gods which I made”
“and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt”
“Along with its priests who rejoiced over it”
“but the work of men's hands”
“which my fathers have destroyed”
“even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships”
“you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image”