Isaiah 37:19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

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 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.

King James 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands--wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

International Standard Version
and have thrown their gods into the fire—but they are not gods, but rather the products of human hands, mere wood and stone. So the Assyrians 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.

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.

Darby 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; and they have destroyed them.

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.

Cross References

Galatians 4:8
However, then, when you knew not God, you did service to them which by nature are no gods.

Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing: an abomination is he that chooses you.

Isaiah 41:29
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Jeremiah 1:16
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 16:20
Shall a man make gods to himself, and they are no gods?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

37:1-38 This chapter is the same as 2Ki 19

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. cast … gods into … fire—The policy of the Assyrians in order to alienate the conquered peoples from their own countries was, both to deport them elsewhere, and to destroy the tutelary idols of their nation, the strongest tie which bound them to their native land. The Roman policy was just the reverse.