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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Kings 19:18

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.

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

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
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

8When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish, he left and found him fighting against Libnah. 9The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10“Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 11Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: They completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? 12Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—nations such as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’” 14Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple, and spread it out before the Lord. 15Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: 16Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God. 17Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

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
Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
Look, I’ve got two daughters who haven’t been intimate with a man. I’ll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with blindness so that they were unable to find the entrance.
Genesis 19:12
Then the angels said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here: a son-in-law, your sons and daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of this place,
Genesis 32:26
Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
Isaiah 45:11
This is what the Lord,the Holy One of Israel and its Maker, says:“Ask me what is to happen to my sons,and instruct me about the work of my hands.
Acts 9:13
“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
Acts 10:14
“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.”

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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