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2 Kings 19:18

And haue set fire on their gods: For they were no gods, but the worke of the handes of man, euen of wood and stone: and they destroyed them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idol;   Idolatry;   Prayer;   Religion;   Stones;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Arpad;   Isaiah;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Hezekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Israel;   Philistines;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Interesting facts about the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crafts;   Intercession;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fire;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
New Century Version
They have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire, but they were only wood and rock statues that people made. So the kings have destroyed them.
New English Translation
They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
Amplified Bible
and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not [real] gods but [only] the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they [could destroy them and] have destroyed them.
New American Standard Bible
and have hurled their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And haue set fire on their gods: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood and stone: therefore they destroyed them.
Legacy Standard Bible
and have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
They destroyed the idols of wood and stone that the people of those nations had made and worshiped.
Complete Jewish Bible
and have thrown their gods into the fire. For those were non-gods, merely the product of people's hands, wood and stone; this is why they could destroy them.
Darby Translation
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.
Easy-to-Read Version
They did throw the gods of those nations into the fire. But they were not real gods. They were only wood and stone—statues that people made. That is why the kings of Assyria could destroy them.
George Lamsa Translation
And have burned their gods in fire; for they were no gods, but the works of mens hands, wood and stone; therefore they have burned them.
Good News Translation
and burned up their gods—which were no gods at all, only images of wood and stone made by human hands.
Lexham English Bible
He has hurled their gods in the fire because they are not gods, but the work of the hands of a human made of wood and stone, so they destroyed them.
Literal Translation
and have put their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and have destroyed them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and haue cast their goddes in the fyre: for they were not Goddes, but ye worke of mes hondes, wodd and stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And haue cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of mens hands, wood and stone: therfore they haue destroyed them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and senten the goddis of hem in to fier; for thei weren not goddis, but werkis of `hondis of men, of tre and stoon; and thei losten `tho goddis.
Update Bible Version
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of man's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands--wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
New Living Translation
And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.
New Life Bible
They have thrown their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, made from wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
New Revised Standard
and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and have put their gods in the fire, - for, no-gods, were, they, but the work of the hands of men - wood and stone, and so they destroyed them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.
Revised Standard Version
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 were destroyed.
Young's Literal Translation
and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.
THE MESSAGE
Huge bonfires they made of their gods, their no-gods hand-made from wood and stone.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Contextual Overview

8 And Rabsakeh went backe againe, and founde the king of Assyria fighting against Libna: for he had hearde howe that he was departed from Lachis. 9 And when he hearde men say of Thirhaka king of the blacke Mores, Behold he is come out to fight against thee: he departed, and sent messengers vnto Hezekia, saying. 10 Thus speake to Hezekia king of Iuda, saying: Let not thy God deceaue thee in whom thou trustest, saying: Hierusalem shall not be deliuered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Beholde, thou hast hearde what the kinges of Assyria haue done to all landes, how they haue vtterly destroyed them: And shalt thou escape? 12 Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them, whiche myne auncestours haue destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, the king of the citie of Sepharuaun, and of Hena and Iua? 14 And Hezekia receaued the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: And Hezekia went vp into the house of the Lorde, and layde it abrode before the Lorde. 15 And Hezekia prayed before the Lord, and sayd: O Lord God of Israel which dwellest betweene ye Cherubs, thou art God alone ouer al the kingdomes of the earth, thou hast made heauen & earth. 16 Lorde bowe downe thyne eare, and heare: Open Lorde thyne eyes, [I besech thee,] and see: and heare the wordes of Sennacherib whiche hath sent [this man] to rayle on the lyuing God. 17 Of a trueth Lorde, the kinges of Assyria haue destroyed nations and their landes,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have cast: Heb. have given, 2 Samuel 5:21, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2

for they were: Psalms 115:4-8, Isaiah 37:18, Isaiah 37:19, Isaiah 44:9-20, Jeremiah 10:3-9, Jeremiah 10:14-16, Acts 17:29

Reciprocal: Judges 18:17 - the graven 2 Kings 10:26 - and burned them 2 Kings 18:33 - Hath any 2 Kings 19:11 - General 1 Chronicles 14:12 - were burned 2 Chronicles 13:9 - no gods 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Daniel 3:1 - made

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym.
Genesis 19:8
Behold, I haue two daughters whiche haue knowen no man, them wyll I bryng out nowe vnto you, and do with them as it [seemeth] good in your eyes: only vnto these men do nothyng, for therefore came they vnder the shadowe of my roofe.
Genesis 19:11
And the men that were at the doore of the house they smoke with blyndenesse both small and great, so that they were weryed in sekyng the doore.
Genesis 19:12
And the men sayde vnto Lot: Hast thou here any besides? sonne in lawe, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bryng them out of this place:
Genesis 32:26
And he said: let me go, for the day breaketh. Whiche aunswered: I will not let thee go, except thou blesse me.
Isaiah 45:11
Thus saith the Lorde, euen the holy one and maker of Israel: Aske me of thinges for to come concerning my sonnes, and put me in remembraunce as touching the workes of my handes.
Acts 9:13
Then Ananias aunswered: Lorde, I haue heard by many, of this man, how much euyll he hath done to thy saintes, at Hierusalem.
Acts 10:14
But Peter sayde, Not so Lorde: For I haue neuer eaten any thyng that is common or vncleane.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Have cast their gods into the fire - In general the Assyrians carried off the images of the gods from the temples of the conquered nations, and deposited them in their own shrines, as at once trophies of victory and proof of the superiority of the Assyrian deities over those of their enemies. But sometimes the gods are said to have been “destroyed” or “burnt with fire;” which was probably done when the idols were of rude workmanship or coarse material; and when it was inconvenient to encumber an army with spoils so weighty and difficult, of transport.


 
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