“And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.”
The expansion of condemnation—'No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to a block of wood?"'—imagines what rational reflection would demand. The rhetorical questions suggest that sane reflection would immediately expose idolatry's incoherence: one cannot coherently use wood for fuel and worship simultaneously. The word 'abomination' associates idolatry with covenant violation. This verse depicts the rational objections that idolatry requires people to ignore.
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