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New Living Translation

Isaiah 2:18

Idols will completely disappear.

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.
New Century Version
but all the idols will be gone.
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 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 Crawl into caves in the rocks. Hide in the dust from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty. 11 Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment. 12 For the Lord of Heaven's Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted. 13 He will cut down the tall cedars of Lebanon and all the mighty oaks of Bashan. 14 He will level all the high mountains and all the lofty hills. 15 He will break down every high tower and every fortified wall. 16 He will destroy all the great trading ships and every magnificent vessel. 17 Human pride will be humbled, and human arrogance will be brought down. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment. 18 Idols will completely disappear. 19 When the Lord rises to shake the earth, his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground. They will hide in caves in the rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty.

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
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
Genesis 2:13
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.
Genesis 3:12
The man replied, "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
Ruth 3:1
One day Naomi said to Ruth, "My daughter, it's time that I found a permanent home for you, so that you will be provided for.
Proverbs 18:22
The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and he receives favor from the Lord .
1 Corinthians 7:36
But if a man thinks that he's treating his fiancée improperly and will inevitably give in to his passion, let him marry her as he wishes. It is not a 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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