The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The workman melteth a graven image. "Graven" - Hebrew, pecel (H6459); rather, an image in general; because it is incongruous to say melteth (i:e., casts out of metal) a graven image (i:e., one of carved wood). So Jeremiah 10:14, "molten image."
Spreadeth it over with gold - (note, Isaiah 30:22.)
Silver chains - an ornament lavishly worn by rich Orientals (Isaiah 3:18-19), and so transferred to their idols. Egyptian relics show that idols were suspended in houses by chains.