Idolatry

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 115:5 OT

  They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

• Psalms 115:8 OT

  Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

• Psalms 135:15-18 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. Those who…

• Isaiah 2:8 OT

  Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

• Isaiah 16:12 OT

  It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

• Isaiah 36:18 OT

  Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

• 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 40:12-26 OT

  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who has directed…

• Isaiah 41:23 OT

  Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

• Isaiah 41:24 OT

  Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

• Isaiah 41:26-29 OT

  Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words. I am the first to…

• Isaiah 43:9 OT

  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

• Isaiah 44:9-20 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 46:1 OT

  Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.

• Isaiah 46:2 OT

  They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.

• Isaiah 46:6 OT

  Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship.

• Isaiah 47:12-15 OT

  “Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the…

• Isaiah 57:13 OT

  When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

• Jeremiah 2:28 OT

  “But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

• Jeremiah 10:3-16 OT

  For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move.…

• Jeremiah 14:22 OT

  Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

• Jeremiah 16:19 OT

  Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no…

• Jeremiah 16:20 OT

  Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?”

• Jeremiah 48:13 OT

  Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.