Isaiah 44:15

Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

Cross-reference

In Isaiah 44:10, the rhetorical question 'Who forms a god that is profitable for nothing?' sets up the absurdity demonstrated here.

Isaiah 45:20 mocks those who carry wooden idols that cannot save — directly echoes the foolishness of warming oneself with the same wood.

Isaiah 2:8 Parallel

Isaiah 2:8 condemns worship of idols made by human hands, reinforcing the same theme of handmade gods.

Isaiah 17:8 Parallel

Isaiah 17:8 describes abandoning altars made by human hands, linking the futility of handmade idols.

Revelation 9:20 explicitly names idols of wood that cannot see or hear — a clear NT echo of the same idolatry critique.

1 Kings 18:27 has Elijah mocking Baal's inability to respond — same ridicule of powerless idols as in this passage.

Jeremiah 1:16 pronounces judgment for worshipping the work of one's own hands, a direct parallel.

Exodus 20:5 Parallel

Exodus 20:5 forbids bowing to idols — the commandment that the idolater here violates by worshiping a wooden object.