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In Isa. 2: 16 the expression 'pleasant pictures' is supposed to mean 'pictures of desire,' as it reads in the margin, referring to anything on which their hearts were set. In ancient Egypt the nearest approach to what is now called a picture, is the coloured representations made on the walls of the temples and tombs. The walls in Babylon were ornamented with pictures on enamelled bricks: these seem to be alluded to in Ezek. 23: 14: cf. Num. 33: 52. In Prov. 25: 11 "apples of gold in pictures of silver" probably describe some piece of
jewellery judging from what immediately follows; others prefer to translate it 'graven imagery.'