Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Daniel 3:10 OT

  You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

• Daniel 3:15 OT

  Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour…

• Psalms 106:38 OT

  They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

• Acts 7:41 NT

  They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

• Deuteronomy 30:17 OT

  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

• Psalms 81:9 OT

  There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

• Exodus 23:13 OT

  “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

• Joshua 23:7 OT

  that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

• Deuteronomy 8:19 OT

  It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

• Deuteronomy 18:20 OT

  But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

• Hosea 3:1 OT

  Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

• Deuteronomy 7:4 OT

  For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

• Jeremiah 5:19 OT

  It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

• 2 Kings 17:35 OT

  with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

• Exodus 22:20 OT

  “He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

• Exodus 32:4-6 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.” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before…

• Psalms 106:19 OT

  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

• Psalms 106:20 OT

  Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

• Colossians 2:18 NT

  Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

• Deuteronomy 4:19 OT

  and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under…

• Deuteronomy 17:3 OT

  and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

• Matthew 4:9-10 NT

  He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

• Revelation 9:20 NT

  The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see,…

• Psalms 106:28 OT

  They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.