Isaiah 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Ver. 8. Their land also is full of idols.] As Babylon, "a land of idols"; Jer 50:38 as Athens, "wholly given to idolatry"; Act 17:16 as China is said to have in it at this day a hundred thousand gods. And what shall we think of Popish idols? The word here rendered idols signifieth nihilitates, nothingness; for an idol is nothing in the world. 1Co 8:4

They worship the work of their own hands.] Scelestum el immane facinus, dirum scelus et execrandum; effraenata et praeceps amentia. See Isaiah 44:15; Isaiah 44:18 .

Isaiah 2:8

8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: