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Sagradas Escrituras

Jeremías 16:20

¿Hará por ventura el hombre dioses para sí? Mas ellos no serán dioses.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Gentiles;   Idolatry;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Gods, False;   Idolatry;   Images;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Defilement;   Idolatry;   Profit;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Teach, Teacher;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Gods;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
¿Puede hacer el hombre dioses para sí? ¡Pero no son dioses!
La Biblia Reina-Valera
�Ha de hacer el hombre dioses para s�? mas ellos no son dioses.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
�Ha de hacer el hombre dioses para s�? Mas ellos no son dioses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 115:4-8, Psalms 135:14-18, Isaiah 36:19, Isaiah 37:19, Hosea 8:4-6, Acts 19:26, Galatians 1:8, Galatians 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Isaiah 44:9 - and their Jeremiah 2:11 - no gods Daniel 3:1 - made Amos 2:4 - and their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall a man make gods unto himself,.... Can a man make his own gods? a poor, weak, mortal man? can he make gods of gold, silver, brass, wood, or stone? can he put deity into them? and when he has made images of these, can he be so stupid as to account them gods, and worship them? can he be so sottish, and void of understanding, as to imagine that anything that is made by himself or any other, can be God?

and they are no gods; that are made by men; he only is the true God, that is the Maker and Creator of all things; or they are no gods themselves that pretend to make them, and therefore how should they make gods? can they give that which they have not? or impart deity to others which they have not themselves? These words are a continuation of the speech of the Gentiles, and contain their reasonings, exposing the folly of their idolatrous ancestors: though some take them to be the words of God, or of the prophet, inveighing against the Jews for their stupidity in worshipping idols; when the Gentiles were convinced of the folly and vanity of such practices, and acknowledged it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 16:20. Shall a man make gods unto himself? — Can any be so silly, and so preposterously absurd? Yes, fallen man is capable of any thing that is base, mean, vile, and wicked, till influenced and converted by the grace of Christ.


 
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