Isaiah 41:7 - Exposition

The carpenter , etc. (comp. Isaiah 40:19 , Isaiah 40:20 for the variety of workmen employed in the production of idols). Each encourages the others to manufacture a right good god. When all is done, there is, however, need of soldering, and of nails, that the wretched object may be kept erect, and not show its weakness by falling, like Dagon, upon its own threshold ( 1 Samuel 5:4 ).