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New Century Version

Isaiah 2:18

but all the idols will be gone.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Isaiah;   Judgments;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Earthquakes;   Idolatry;   Pride/arrogance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day of the Lord, God, Christ, the;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dagon;   Idol;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Day of the Lord;   Isaiah;   Night Monster;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Judgment Damnation;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Idolatry;   Images;   Peter, Simon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Monotheism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The idols will vanish completely.
Hebrew Names Version
The idols shall utterly pass away.
King James Version
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
English Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
New American Standard Bible
And the idols will completely vanish.
Amplified Bible
And the idols will completely vanish (be abolished).
World English Bible
The idols shall utterly pass away.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.
Legacy Standard Bible
But the idols will completely vanish.
Berean Standard Bible
and the idols will vanish completely.
Contemporary English Version
Idols will be gone for good.
Complete Jewish Bible
The idols will be completely abolished.
Darby Translation
and the idols shall utterly pass away.
Easy-to-Read Version
All the idols will be gone.
George Lamsa Translation
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Lexham English Bible
And the idols shall pass away entirely,
Literal Translation
And the idols shall completely vanish.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the Idols shal utterly be roted out.
American Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Bible in Basic English
And the images will never be seen again.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
King James Version (1611)
And the idoles hee shall vtterly abolish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for the idols he shall vtterly abolishe:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall hide all idols made with hands,
English Revised Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and idols schulen be brokun togidere outirli.
Update Bible Version
And the idols shall completely pass away.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the idols he will utterly abolish.
New English Translation
The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.
New King James Version
But the idols He shall utterly abolish.
New Living Translation
Idols will completely disappear.
New Life Bible
All the false gods will be gone.
New Revised Standard
The idols shall utterly pass away.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the idols, shall wholly pass away;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
Revised Standard Version
And the idols shall utterly pass away.
Young's Literal Translation
And the idols -- they completely pass away.
THE MESSAGE
And all those sticks and stones dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the idols will completely vanish.

Contextual Overview

10 Go into the caves of the cliffs; dig holes and hide in the ground from the anger of the Lord and from his great power! 11 Proud people will be made humble, and they will bow low with shame. At that time only the Lord will still be praised. 12 The Lord All-Powerful has a certain day planned when he will punish the proud and those who brag, and they will no longer be important. 13 He will bring down the tall cedar trees from Lebanon and the great oak trees of Bashan, 14 all the tall mountains and the high hills, 15 every tall tower and every high, strong wall, 16 all the trading ships and the beautiful ships. 17 At that time proud people will be made humble, and they will bow low with shame. At that time only the Lord will be praised, 18 but all the idols will be gone. 19 People will run to caves in the rocky cliffs and will dig holes and hide in the ground from the anger of the Lord and his great power, when he stands to shake the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the idols: Isaiah 27:9, Ezekiel 36:25, Ezekiel 37:23, Hosea 14:8, Zephaniah 1:3, Zechariah 13:2

he shall utterly abolish: or, shall utterly pass away

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:21 - I took 1 Samuel 5:4 - the head 2 Kings 11:18 - brake they 2 Chronicles 23:17 - brake his altars 2 Chronicles 30:14 - altars Isaiah 17:8 - he shall Jeremiah 10:11 - they Jeremiah 10:15 - in the Ezekiel 6:6 - your altars Ezekiel 16:41 - and I Micah 5:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living person.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.
Genesis 2:13
The second river, named Gihon, flows around the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Ruth 3:1
Then Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a suitable home for you, one that will be good for you.
Proverbs 18:22
When a man finds a wife, he finds something good. It shows that the Lord is pleased with him.
1 Corinthians 7:36
If a man thinks he is not doing the right thing with the girl he is engaged to, if she is almost past the best age to marry and he feels he should marry her, he should do what he wants. They should get married. It is no sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the idols he shall utterly abolish. The images of saints worshipped by the Papists: after the destruction of antichrist, and when the spiritual reign of Christ takes place, there will be no idolatry or worshipping of images any more, see Zechariah 13:2. The word

אלילים, used for "idols", signifies things that are not, for an idol is nothing in the world, 1 Corinthians 8:4 these the Lord "will cause to pass away", even all of them, they shall disappear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the idols - Note, Isaiah 2:8.

Abolish - Hebrew, ‘Cause to pass away or disappear.’ He shall entirely cause their worship to cease. This prediction was most remarkably fulfilled. Before the captivity at Babylon, the Jews were exceedingly prone to idolatry. It is a remarkable fact that no such propensity was ever evinced “after” that. In their own land they were entirely free from it; and scattered as they have been into all lands, they have in every age since kept clear from idolatry. Not an instance, probably, has been known of their relapsing into this sin; and no temptation, or torture, has been sufficient to induce them to bow down and worship an idol. This is one of the few instances that have occurred where affliction and punishment have “completely” answered their design.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 2:18. Shall utterly abolish - "Shall disappear"] The ancient versions and an ancient MS. read יחלפו yachalpu, plural. One of my MSS. reads יחלוף yachaloph, probably a mistake for יחלפו yachalpu.


 
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