The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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Gill's Exposition
The workman melteth a graven image,.... Or, "the founder"; he melts some sort of metal, as iron, brass, copper, or lead, which he casts into a mould for an image, and afterwards graves, or gets it…
Barnes' Notes
The workman - The Hebrew word denotes an artificer of any kind, and is applied to one who engraved on wood or stone Exo 28:2; to a workman in iron, brass, stone, wood Exo 35:35; Deu 27:15; or an…
The prophet here reproves those, 1. Who represented God by creatures, and so changed his truth into a lie and his glory into shame, who made images and then said that they resembled God, and paid…
Cambridge Bible
melteth a graven image R.V. The graven image, a workman melted it. The word péṣelmeans strictly a "graven image," but is used several times as here of an image in general.
overlayeth it with gold The…
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