Text: Psalm 135:6
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 20:4
Subject: over all creation in poetic retrospective
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Anchor Text: Exod 20 — The Decalogue
Significance: Exodus 20:4 prohibits making graven images of "anything in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in the waters below," and Psalm 135:6 celebrates God's sovereign activity in those same three realms: "The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths." The second commandment's prohibition covers images from every domain of creation, and the psalm asserts God's unrivaled sovereignty over those same domains. The connection is one of theological grounding: idols are prohibited precisely because the true God actually exercises dominion over heaven, earth, and sea—no crafted image can represent the One whose active will governs all three realms.