Idol

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 20:4 OT

  “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

• Exodus 32:4 OT

  He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus 32:20 OT

  He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

• Deuteronomy 4:23 OT

  Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

• Isaiah 40:19 OT

  A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

• Isaiah 40:20 OT

  He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.

• Isaiah 44:9-12 OT

  Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?…

• Isaiah 44:17 OT

  The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”

• Habakkuk 2:18 OT

  “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

• Acts 19:24 NT

  For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

• Acts 19:25 NT

  whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

• Exodus 34:17 OT

  “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

• Exodus 32:3 OT

  All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

• Psalms 115:4-7 OT

  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell. They have hands, but they…

• Psalms 135:15-17 OT

  The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see. They have ears, but they can’t hear, neither is there any breath in their mouths.

• Isaiah 2:20 OT

  In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

• Isaiah 30:22 OT

  You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

• Isaiah 31:7 OT

  For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

• Hosea 8:4 OT

  They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

• Leviticus 26:1 OT

  “ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 4:28 OT

  There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

• 2 Kings 19:18 OT

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

• Isaiah 37:19 OT

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

• Isaiah 41:6 OT

  Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”