Daniel 3:14

3:14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my gods and that you don’t pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?

Yesaya 46:6

46:6 Those who empty out gold from a purse

and weigh out silver on the scale ¹ 

hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god.

They then bow down and worship it.

Yeremia 16:20

16:20 Can people make their own gods?

No, what they make are not gods at all.” ² 

Habakuk 2:19

2:19 The one who says to wood, ‘Wake up!’ is as good as dead ³  –

he who says ⁴  to speechless stone, ‘Awake!’

Can it give reliable guidance? ⁵ 

It is overlaid with gold and silver;

it has no life’s breath inside it.

[46:6]  ¹ tn Heb “the reed,” probably referring to the beam of a scales. See BDB 889 s.v. קָנֶה 4.c.

[16:20]  ² tn Heb “and they are ‘no gods.’” For the construction here compare 2:11 and a similar construction in 2 Kgs 19:18 and see BDB 519 s.v. לֹא 1.b(b).

[2:19]  ³ tn Heb “Woe [to] the one who says.” On the term הוֹי (hoy) see the note on the word “dead” in v. 6.

[2:19]  ⁴ tn The words “he who says” in the translation are supplied from the previous parallel line.

[2:19]  ⁵ tn Though the Hebrew text has no formal interrogative marker here, the context indicates that the statement should be taken as a rhetorical question anticipating the answer, “Of course not!” (so also NIV, NRSV).