Lexicon :: Strong's H6459 - pesel

“You shall not make for yourself any idol, or any likeness (form, manifestation) of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth [as an object to worship].

[fn]‘You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you erect an image, a sacred pillar or an obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land so that you may bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

“When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, then if you corrupt yourselves by making a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything [for the purpose of worship], and do evil [things] in the sight of the LORD your God, provoking Him to anger,

‘You shall not make for yourself an idol [as an object to worship], or any likeness (form, manifestation) of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Then the five men who had gone to scout the country of Laish said to their relatives, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, an image [of silver-plated wood], and a cast image [of solid silver]? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

Let all those be [deeply] ashamed who serve carved images,

Who boast in idols.

Worship Him, all you gods!

As for the cast image (idol), a metalworker casts it,

A goldsmith overlays it with gold

And a silversmith casts its silver chains.

Those who trust in carved idols will be turned back,

And utterly put to shame,

Who say to cast images,

“You are our gods.”

All who make carved idols are nothing. Their precious objects are worthless [to them], and their own witnesses (worshipers) fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

“Assemble yourselves and come;

Come together, you survivors of the nations!

They are ignorant,

Who carry around their wooden idols [in religious processions or into battle]

And keep on praying to a god that cannot save them.

I have declared them to you long ago;

Before they came to pass I announced them to you,

So that you could not say, ‘My idol has done them,

And my carved image and my cast image have commanded them.’

Every man has become [like a brute] irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God];

Every goldsmith is shamed by his carved idols;

For his molten images are frauds and lies,

And there is no breath in them.

Every man has become stupid and brutelike, without knowledge [of God];

Every goldsmith is shamed by the cast images he has made;

For his molten idols are a lie,

And there is no breath [of life] or spirit in them.

The LORD has given a command concerning you [O king of Nineveh]:

“Your name will no longer be perpetuated.

I will cut off the carved idols and cast images

From the temple of your gods;

I will prepare your grave,

For you are vile and unworthy.”

“What profit is the carved image when its maker has formed it?

It is only a cast image, and a teacher of lies.

For its maker trusts in his own creation [as his god]

When he makes speechless idols.