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Selected Verse: Psalms 135:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 135:15 |
Strong Concordance |
The idols [06091] of the heathen [01471] are silver [03701] and gold [02091], the work [04639] of men's [0120] hands [03027]. |
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King James |
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Psa 115:4-8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The idols of the heathen are silver and gold ... - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psalmist instituted a comparison between him and idols, showing that the gods worshipped by the pagan lacked every ground of claim to divine worship and homage. They were, after all that could be done to fashion, to decorate, and to adorn them, nothing but silver and gold, and could have no better claim to worship than silver and gold as such. They had, indeed, mouths, eyes, ears, but they could neither speak, see, hear, nor breathe. The passage here is substantially the same as in Psa 115:4-8; and the one was evidently copied from the other, though in the latter the description is in some respects amplified; but which was the original it is impossible to determine. See the notes at that passage. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| For the good of His proved church He ever proves Himself to be the Living God, whereas idols and idol-worshippers are vain - throughout following Psa 115:4-8, but with some abridgments. Here only the אף used as a particle recalls what is said there of the organ of smell (אף) of the idols that smells not, just as the רוּח which is here (as in Jer 10:14) denied to the idols recalls the הריח denied to them there. It is to be rendered: also there is not a being of breath, i.e., there is no breath at all, not a trace thereof, in their mouth. It is different in Sa1 21:9, where אין ישׁ (not אין) is meant to be equivalent to the Aramaic אין אית, num (an) est; אין is North-Palestinian, and equivalent to the interrogatory אם (after which the Targum renders אלּוּ אית). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The idols of the heathen - This verse and the following, to the end of the 18th, are almost word for word the same as Psa 115:4-8 (note), where see the notes. |
4 Their idols [06091] are silver [03701] and gold [02091], the work [04639] of men's [0120] hands [03027].
5 They have mouths [06310], but they speak [01696] not: eyes [05869] have they, but they see [07200] not:
6 They have ears [0241], but they hear [08085] not: noses [0639] have they, but they smell [07306] not:
7 They have hands [03027], but they handle [04184] not: feet [07272] have they, but they walk [01980] not: neither speak [01897] they through their throat [01627].
8 They that make [06213] them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth [0982] in them.
4 Their idols [06091] are silver [03701] and gold [02091], the work [04639] of men's [0120] hands [03027].
5 They have mouths [06310], but they speak [01696] not: eyes [05869] have they, but they see [07200] not:
6 They have ears [0241], but they hear [08085] not: noses [0639] have they, but they smell [07306] not:
7 They have hands [03027], but they handle [04184] not: feet [07272] have they, but they walk [01980] not: neither speak [01897] they through their throat [01627].
8 They that make [06213] them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth [0982] in them.
9 And the priest [03548] said [0559], The sword [02719] of Goliath [01555] the Philistine [06430], whom thou slewest [05221] in the valley [06010] of Elah [0425], behold, it is here wrapped [03874] in a cloth [08071] behind [0310] the ephod [0646]: if thou wilt take [03947] that, take [03947] it: for there is no other [0312] save [02108] that here [02088]. And David [01732] said [0559], There is none like that; give [05414] it me.
14 Every man [0120] is brutish [01197] in his knowledge [01847]: every founder [06884] is confounded [03001] by the graven image [06459]: for his molten image [05262] is falsehood [08267], and there is no breath [07307] in them.
4 Their idols [06091] are silver [03701] and gold [02091], the work [04639] of men's [0120] hands [03027].
5 They have mouths [06310], but they speak [01696] not: eyes [05869] have they, but they see [07200] not:
6 They have ears [0241], but they hear [08085] not: noses [0639] have they, but they smell [07306] not:
7 They have hands [03027], but they handle [04184] not: feet [07272] have they, but they walk [01980] not: neither speak [01897] they through their throat [01627].
8 They that make [06213] them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth [0982] in them.
4 Their idols [06091] are silver [03701] and gold [02091], the work [04639] of men's [0120] hands [03027].
5 They have mouths [06310], but they speak [01696] not: eyes [05869] have they, but they see [07200] not:
6 They have ears [0241], but they hear [08085] not: noses [0639] have they, but they smell [07306] not:
7 They have hands [03027], but they handle [04184] not: feet [07272] have they, but they walk [01980] not: neither speak [01897] they through their throat [01627].
8 They that make [06213] them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth [0982] in them.