Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Ezekiel 20:16 OT

  because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

• Jeremiah 50:38 OT

  A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

• Psalms 97:7 OT

  Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

• Hosea 4:12 OT

  My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

• Isaiah 45:20 OT

  “Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.

• Amos 8:14 OT

  Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god, Dan, lives;’ and, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives;’ they will fall, and never rise up again.”

• 1 Corinthians 8:5 NT

  For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

• Genesis 35:4 OT

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Joshua 24:20 OT

  If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

• Judges 2:12 OT

  They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

• Judges 2:17 OT

  Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

• 1 Kings 14:9 OT

  but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

• Deuteronomy 32:17 OT

  They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

• Judges 5:8 OT

  They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

• Jeremiah 10:11 OT

  “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”

• Jeremiah 5:7 OT

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

• Galatians 4:8 NT

  However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

• Exodus 34:17 OT

  “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

• Leviticus 19:4 OT

  “ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 27:15 OT

  ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• 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?

• Hosea 11:2 OT

  They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

• 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.

• Psalms 115:5 OT

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