Isaiah 37:19

Douay-Rheims Bible

And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men’s hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made from wood and stone by human hands. 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 no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

New American Standard Bible
and have thrown 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.

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.

Amplified Bible
and have cast the gods [of those peoples] into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore 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 cast their gods in ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they destroyed them.

Legacy Standard Bible
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.

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 products 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; and they have 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 lands and their gods with fire; for they were no gods, but the work of mens hands, of wood, of silver, and of stone; therefore they have destroyed 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
to set their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

Literal Translation
and have given their gods into the fire (for they were not gods, only the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them).

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& cast their goddes in the fyre. Notwithstodinge those were no goddes but the workes of mens hondes, of wodd or 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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And cast their gods in the fire: for those were no gods, but the workes of mens handes, of wood or stone, therfore haue they destroyed them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.

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)
for thei weren not goddis, but the werkis of mennus hondis, trees and stoonys; and thei al to-braken 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 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.

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 of 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.

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
so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.

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 Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna. For he had heard that he was departed from Lachis. ⁹ And he heard say about Tharaca the king of Ethiopia: He is come forth to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying: ¹⁰ Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. ¹¹ Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered? ¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? ¹⁴ And Ezechias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezechias spread it before the Lord. ¹⁵ And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying: ¹⁶ Lord of hosts, God of Israel who sitteth upon the cherubims, thou alone art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth. ¹⁷ Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And have: Isaiah 10:9-11, Isaiah 36:18-20, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2, Exodus 32:20, 2 Samuel 5:21

cast: Heb. given

no gods: Isaiah 40:19-21, Isaiah 41:7, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10, Isaiah 44:17, Psalms 115:4-8, Jeremiah 10:3-6, Jeremiah 10:11, Hosea 8:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:30 - my gods 2 Kings 1:2 - god 2 Kings 18:34 - the gods 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Psalms 135:15 - idols Isaiah 2:8 - worship Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:11 - General Jeremiah 1:16 - worshipped Jeremiah 2:11 - no gods Jeremiah 16:20 - General Jeremiah 50:2 - her idols Ezekiel 20:32 - to serve Daniel 5:23 - which Daniel 11:8 - their gods

Cross-References

Genesis 28:12
And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.

Genesis 37:5
Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

Genesis 37:11
His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

Genesis 49:23
But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, have cast their gods into the fire..... And burnt them; and it may well be asked, where are they? Isaiah 36:19:

for they were no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; they were made of wood or of stone, and therefore could not be called gods; nor could they save the nations that worshipped them, nor themselves, from the fire:

therefore they have destroyed them; the Assyrian kings were able to do it, and did do it, because they were idols of wood or stone; but it did not therefore follow, that they were a match for the God of Israel, the true, and living God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And have cast their gods into the fire - This appears to have been the usual policy of the Assyrians and Babylonians. It was contrary to the policy which the Romans afterward pursued, for they admitted the gods of other nations among their own, and even allowed them to have a place in the Pantheon. Their design seems not to have been to alienate the feelings of the vanquished, but to make them feel that they were a part of the same people. They supposed that a vanquished people would be conciliated with the idea that their gods were admitted to participate in the honors of those which were worshipped by the conquerors of the world. But the policy of the Eastern conquerors was different. They began usually by removing the people themselves whom they had subdued, to another land (see the note at Isaiah 36:17). They thus intended to alienate their minds as much as possible from their own country. They laid everything waste by fire and sword, and thus destroyed their homes, and all the objects of their attachment. They destroyed their temples, their groves, and their household gods. They well knew that the civil policy of the nation was founded in religion, and that, to subdue them effectually, it was necessary to abolish their religion. Which was the wisest policy, may indeed admit of question. Perhaps in each case the policy was well adapted to the particular end which was had in view.

For they were no gods - They were not truly gods, and therefore they had no power of resistance, and it was easy to destroy them.