Isaiah 2:20

WEB

²⁰In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

KJV

²⁰In that day^[+] a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

BSB

²⁰In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.

FBV

²⁰On that day the people will take the idols of silver and gold that they made to worship and throw them away to the rats^[+] and the bats.

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Extra References

Isaiah 30:22

²²You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

Isaiah 31:7

⁷For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

Isaiah 46:6

⁶Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.

Isaiah 46:1

¹Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.

Leviticus 11:19

¹⁹the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, and the bat.

Hosea 14:8

⁸Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

⁷However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. ⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ