1 Chronicles 16:26
Good News Translation
The gods of all other nations are only idols, but the LORD created the heavens.

New Revised Standard Version
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
Other nations worship idols, but the LORD created the heavens.

New American Bible
For the gods of the nations all do nothing, but the LORD made the heavens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

all the gods

Leviticus 19:4 Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

Psalm 115:4-8 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. . . .

Isaiah 44:9 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.

Jeremiah 10:10-14 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening. . . .

Acts 19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul, by persuasion hath drawn away a great multitude, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying: they are not gods which are made by hands.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

the Lord

Psalm 102:25 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.

Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, that established the earth, and there is none with me.

Jeremiah 10:11,12 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven. . . .

Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord and give him honour, because the hour of his judgment is come. And adore ye him that made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.

Context
David's Psalm of Thanksgiving
25For the Lord is great and exceedingly to be praised: and he is to be feared above all gods. 26For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.27Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his place.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 16:27
Praise and magnificence are before him: strength and joy in his place.

Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 102:25
In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

1 Chronicles 16:25
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