1 Chronicles 16:26

In 11 translations

BSB

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

KJV

For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

WEB

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

ASV

For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Jehovah made the heavens.

LSV

For all gods of the peoples [are] nothing, || And YHWH has made the heavens.

YLT

For all gods of the peoples [are] nought, And Jehovah the heavens hath made.

DBY

For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.Elohim

DRC

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

GNV

For all the gods of the people are idoles, but the Lord made the heauens.

JPS

For all the gods of the peoples are things of nought; but the LORD made the heavens.

LXXE

For all the gods of the nations are idols; but our God made the heavens.

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WLC

כִּ֠י כָּל־אֱלֹהֵ֤י הָעַמִּים֙ אֱלִילִ֔ים וַיהוָ֖ה שָׁמַ֥יִם עָשָֽׂה׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι πάντες οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν εἴδωλα, καὶ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν οὐρανοὺς ἐποίησε.

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• Isaiah 44:24Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
• Isaiah 42:5This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
• Psalms 102:25In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
• Isaiah 40:26Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
• Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
• Isaiah 44:9–20All 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? Behold,…
• Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
• Jeremiah 10:10–14But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation. Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the…
• 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
• Revelation 14:7And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”
• Psalms 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; they have hands, but…

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