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Rev. 9:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yeti repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devilsk, and idolsl of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

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Jer. 5:3• ³{i}Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.{/i} (Jer. 5:3)

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Jer. 8:6• ⁶{i}I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.{/i} (Jer. 8:6)

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Lev. 17:7• ⁷And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to demons after whom they go a whoring. This shall be an everlasting statute to them for their generations. (Lev. 17:7)

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1 Cor. 10:20• ²⁰but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons. (1 Cor. 10:20)

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Psa. 135:15• ¹⁵Idols of the nations [are] silver and gold,{HR}Works of man's hands. (Psa. 135:15)

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Isa. 40:19‑20• ¹⁹The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
²⁰He that [is] impoverished so that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved. (Isa. 40:19‑20)

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And the.That is, those of the Latin and Greek churches, who escaped destruction, still persisted in their idolatrous worship of demons, etc.yet.

Rev. 9:21• ²¹and they repented not of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts. (Rev. 9:21)

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Rev. 2:21‑22• ²¹And I gave her space to repent, and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
²²Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those that commit fornication with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works. (Rev. 2:21‑22)

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Rev. 16:8• ⁸And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given him to scorch men with fire. (Rev. 16:8)

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Deut. 31:29• ²⁹{i}For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and mischief will befall you at the end of days; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.{/i} (Deut. 31:29)

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2 Chron. 28:22• ²²{i}And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.{/i} (2 Chron. 28:22)

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Jer. 5:3• ³{i}Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.{/i} (Jer. 5:3)

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Jer. 8:4‑6• ⁴{i}And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Do men fall, and not rise up? Doth one turn away, and not return?{/i}
⁵{i}Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.{/i}
⁶{i}I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.{/i} (Jer. 8:4‑6)

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Matt. 21:32• ³²For John came in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him. And ye, when ye saw, regretted not afterward to believe him. (Matt. 21:32)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Lev. 17:7• ⁷And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to demons after whom they go a whoring. This shall be an everlasting statute to them for their generations. (Lev. 17:7)

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Deut. 32:17• ¹⁷{i}They sacrificed unto demons who are not God;{/i}{HR}To gods whom they knew not,{HR}To new gods that came newly up,{HR}Whom your fathers feared not. (Deut. 32:17)

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2 Kings 22:17• ¹⁷{i}Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my fury is kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.{/i} (2 Kings 22:17)

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2 Chron. 34:25• ²⁵{i}Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my fury shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.{/i} (2 Chron. 34:25)

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Psa. 106:37• ³⁷And they sacrificed their sons{HR}And their daughters to the demons; (Psa. 106:37)

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

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Jer. 25:6• ⁶and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. (Jer. 25:6)

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Jer. 44:8• ⁸In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? (Jer. 44:8)

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Acts 7:41• ⁴¹And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. (Acts 7:41)

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Acts 19:26• ²⁶And ye behold and hear that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are no gods that are made by hands. (Acts 19:26)

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1 Cor. 10:20‑21• ²⁰but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons.
²¹Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and a cup of demons; ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of a table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:20‑21)

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1 Tim. 4:1• ¹But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, (1 Tim. 4:1)

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Psa. 115:4‑8• ⁴Their idols [are] silver and gold,{HR}Work of hands of man.
⁵A mouth have they, and they speak not;{HR}Eyes have they, and they see not;
⁶Ears they have, and they hear not;{HR}A nose have they, and they smell not;
⁷They have hands, and they feel not;{HR}They have feet, and they walk not;{HR}They utter not with their throat.
⁸Like them are those making them,{HR}Every one who confideth in them. (Psa. 115:4‑8)

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Psa. 135:15‑18• ¹⁵Idols of the nations [are] silver and gold,{HR}Works of man's hands.
¹⁶A mouth have they, and they speak not;{HR}Eyes have they, and they see not;
¹⁷Ears have they, and they hear not;{HR}Also there is no breath in their mouth.
¹⁸Like them are those that make them—{HR}Every one confiding in them. (Psa. 135:15‑18)

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Isa. 40:19‑20• ¹⁹The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
²⁰He that [is] impoverished so that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image [that] shall not be moved. (Isa. 40:19‑20)

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Isa. 41:7• ⁷So the carpenter encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, [it is] good: and he fasteneth it with nails, [that] it be not moved. (Isa. 41:7)

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Isa. 42:17‑18• ¹⁷They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, [Ye are] our gods.
¹⁸Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. (Isa. 42:17‑18)

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Isa. 44:9‑20• ⁹They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses: they see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.
¹⁰Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
¹¹Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed; and the workmen [are] but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be ashamed together.
¹²The smith [hath] tongs, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; but he is hungry and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.
¹³The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with chalk; he fitteth it with adzes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man, to remain in the house.
¹⁴When he heweth him down cedars, he also taketh a holm-oak and a terebinth, and he maketh one strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he planteth a mountain-ash, and the rain nourisheth [it].
¹⁵And it shall be for a man to burn; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself; he kindleth [it] also, and baketh bread; he maketh also a god, and worshippeth [it]; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
¹⁶He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself], and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the light.
¹⁷And with the residue thereof he maketh a god, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it], and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.
¹⁸They have no knowledge and understand not: for he hath plastered their eyes, that they see not; [and] their hearts that they understand not.
¹⁹And none taketh it to his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and also have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten [it]: and with the residue thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?
²⁰He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand? (Isa. 44:9‑20)

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Isa. 46:5‑7• ⁵To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
⁶Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship.
⁷They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. (Isa. 46:5‑7)

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Jer. 10:3‑5,8‑9,14‑15• ³For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
⁴They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
⁵They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
⁸{i}But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.{/i}
⁹{i}Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.{/i}
¹⁴{i}Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.{/i}
¹⁵They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. (Jer. 10:3‑5,8‑9,14‑15)

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Jer. 15:19‑20• ¹⁹Therefore thus saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
²⁰And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, {i}saith Jehovah;{/i} (Jer. 15:19‑20)

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Jer. 51:17• ¹⁷Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. (Jer. 51:17)

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Dan. 5:23• ²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; {i}and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know;{/i} and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. (Dan. 5:23)

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Hab. 2:18‑20• ¹⁸{i}What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?{/i}
¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
²⁰{i}But{/i} Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. (Hab. 2:18‑20)

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Acts 17:29• ²⁹Being therefore God's off-spring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold, or silver or stone, graven by art and device of man. (Acts 17:29)

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Rom. 1:21‑23• ²¹Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
²²Professing to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures]. (Rom. 1:21‑23)

• They had seen their fellows swept away from the earth by “these plagues”; but their conscience, seared as with a hot iron, was untouched. (article #86696)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worshiph demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

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See Note h, ch. 3.9.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idolsa of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood which can neither see nor hear nor walkb;

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a

T. R. omits "the" before "idols."

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In verses 20 and 21 of the RV the force is given more literally.