Cross references
Isaiah 44:12
The blacksmith takes a tool
and labors over the coals;
he fashions an idol with hammers
and forges it with his strong arms.
Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength;
he fails to drink water and grows faint.
Isaiah 44:12 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 40:19 (4 votes) and Isaiah 41:6–7 (4 votes). 35 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 21 to Revelation 9.
Which verses does Isaiah 44:12 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 40:194 votes
To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
- Isaiah 41:6–74 votes
Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!” The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.
- Isaiah 46:6–73 votes
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship. 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.
- Exodus 32:42 votes
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Exodus 32:82 votes
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
- Jeremiah 10:3–112 votes
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman. They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter. …
- Habakkuk 2:132 votes
Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
Which verses point to Isaiah 44:12?
The 10 strongest of 35.