Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Ezekiel 23:39 OT

  For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.

• 1 Peter 4:3 NT

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• Judges 10:14 OT

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Isaiah 46:7 OT

  They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.

• Romans 1:21-23 NT

  Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the…

• Ezekiel 20:7 OT

  I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’

• Ezekiel 36:18 OT

  Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

• Jeremiah 18:15 OT

  For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

• Ezekiel 44:10 OT

  “ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

• Ezekiel 20:39 OT

  “ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

• Ezekiel 5:11 OT

  Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

• Ezekiel 14:5 OT

  that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

• 2 Kings 22:17 OT

  Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ”

• Jeremiah 16:11 OT

  then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

• 2 Chronicles 19:2 OT

  Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 19:3 OT

  Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

• Deuteronomy 31:20 OT

  For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break…

• Isaiah 65:3 OT

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

• Jeremiah 25:6 OT

  Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.”

• Romans 1:21 NT

  Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 1:22 NT

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Isaiah 57:5 OT

  you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

• Jeremiah 8:5 OT

  Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

• 1 Corinthians 12:2 NT

  You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.