THEOSISJudges 18:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he answered: You have taken away my gods which I have made me, and the priest, and all that I have, and do you say: What aileth thee?
וַיֹּ֡אמֶר אֶת־אֱלֹהַי֩ אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֨יתִי לְקַחְתֶּ֧ם וְֽאֶת־הַכֹּהֵ֛ן וַתֵּלְכ֖וּ וּמַה־לִּ֣י ע֑וֹד וּמַה־זֶּ֛ה תֹּאמְר֥וּ אֵלַ֖י מַה־לָּֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Hab 2:18What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.
- Hab 2:19Woe to him that saith to wood: Awake: to the dumb stone: Arise: can it teach? Behold, it is laid over with gold, and silver, and there is no spirit in the bowels thereof.
- Ps 115 (113):8
- Isa 44:18They have not known, nor understood: for their eyes are covered that they may not see, and that they may not understand with their heart.
- Isa 44:20Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.
- Jer 51:17Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them.
- Ezek 23:5And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
- Jer 50:38A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.