Deuteronomy 4:28 References

28 "aThere you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, bwood and stone, cwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

c Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:15-18, Isaiah 44:12-20

Psalms 115

4 Their aidols are silver and gold, The bwork of man's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they acannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;
6 They have ears, but they cannot hear; They have noses, but they cannot smell;
7 They have hands, but they cannot feel; They have feet, but they cannot walk; They cannot make a sound with their throat.
8 aThose who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them.

Psalms 135

15 The aidols of the nations are but silver and gold, The work of man's hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see;
17 They have ears, but they do not hear, Nor is there any breath at all in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them, Yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 44

12 The aman shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.
13 aAnother shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of bman, so that it may sit in a chouse.
14 Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
15 Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also amakes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and bfalls down before it.
16 Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire."
17 But the rest of it he amakes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also bprays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."
18 They do not aknow, nor do they understand, for He has bsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.
19 No one recalls, nor is there aknowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an babomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"
20 He afeeds on ashes; a bdeceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, "cIs there not a lie in my right hand?"

Other references for Deuteronomy 4:28

a Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:64, Jeremiah 16:13
b Deuteronomy 29:17