Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 44:13

13. The carpenter stretcheth out his rule: he marketh it with a line : he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man ; that it may remain in the house .

He here speaks; Either 1. of the same Image, which is supposed to be made of Wood, and then covered with some Mettal: Or 2. of another sort of Images made of Wood, as the former might be made of Iron. It is not material which way you understand it

He measureth and marketh that portion of Wood by his Rule and Line, of which the Idol is to be made.

In the same comely Shape and Proportions which are in a Living Man, whom he designs to represent as exactly as is possible.

Or sit or dwell. Which implies, Either 1. that it cannot stir out of its place: Or 2. that when the Image is made, it is set up and fixed in its appointed place.

Either in the Temple appointed for it: Or in the dwelling House of him that made it; that he and his Family might more frequently give Worship to it, and might receive Protection from it, as Idolaters vainly imagined.