Cross references

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

1 Samuel 12:21 BSB

1 Samuel 12:21 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Habakkuk 2:18 (6 votes) and Jeremiah 10:15 (5 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Numbers 21 to 2 Timothy 2.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 12:21 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

  2. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

  3. O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

  4. But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

  5. Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

  6. All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?

  7. Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

  8. They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

  9. “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

  10. Jonah 2:83 votes

    Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 12:21?

The 10 strongest of 19.