Isaiah 2:20 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

KJV

In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Which they made each one for himself to worship “Which they have made to worship” - The word לו lo, for himself, is omitted by two ancient MSS., and is unnecessary. It does not appear that any copy of the Septuagint has it, except MS. Pachom, and MS. 1. D. II., and they have ἑαυτοις, להם lahem, to themselves.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בַּיּ֤וֹם	bai.Yom	in the day	H3117 →
הַהוּא֙	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
יַשְׁלִ֣יךְ	yash.Likh	it will throw away	H7993 →
הָאָדָ֔ם	ha.'a.Dam	<the> humankind	H120 →
אֵ֚ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
אֱלִילֵ֣י	'e.li.Lei	[the] idols of	H457 →
כַסְפּ֔וֹ	khas.Po	silver its	H3701 →
וְאֵ֖ת	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אֱלִילֵ֣י	'e.li.Lei	[the] idols of	H457 →
זְהָב֑וֹ	ze.ha.Vo	gold its	H2091 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עָֽשׂוּ־	'a.su-	they made	H6213 →
לוֹ֙	lo	for himself
לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֔ת	le.hish.ta.cha.Vot	to bow down	H7812 →
לַחְפֹּ֥ר	lach.Por	to [the] digging of	H2661 →
פֵּר֖וֹת	pe.Rot	moles	H6512 →
וְלָעֲטַלֵּפִֽים׃	ve.la.'a.ta.le.Fim	and to the bats	H5847 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 14:8
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
leads to
- Job 34:32
  Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
Through
Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
leads to
- Isaiah 30:22
  So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
Through
Isaiah 46:1
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- Jeremiah 50:2
  “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
Through
Isaiah 30:22
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
leads to
- Isaiah 31:7
  For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Judges 17:3–4
  And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and…