They deck it - It was covered with plates of gold and silver, and then fastened with nails in its place, so that it would not move—that is, …

Those ancient prophets seemed to take delight in heaping scorn upon the god-making of the heathen. Even the heathen poets mocked the god-making; on…

He continues with the same subject and borrows his words from the forty-fourth chapter of Isaiah (Isaiah 44); for the passage is wholly…

They deck it with silver and with gold Cover it with plates of silver and gold, for the sake of ornament, that it may loo…

The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…

Here, he shows the dignity of the people, so that from this their guilt might appear more serious and their punishment more just.

It is divi…