Idolatry

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Micah 6:7 OT

  Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

• Deuteronomy 14:1 OT

  You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

• Exodus 32:6 OT

  They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

• Exodus 32:25 OT

  When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

• Numbers 25:1-3 OT

  Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. Israel joined himself to Baal Peor,…

• 1 Kings 14:24 OT

  There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

• 1 Kings 15:12 OT

  He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

• 2 Kings 17:30 OT

  The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

• 2 Kings 23:7 OT

  He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

• Ezekiel 16:17 OT

  You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

• Ezekiel 23:1-44 OT

  Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful…

• Hosea 4:12-14 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. They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on…

• Amos 2:8 OT

  and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

• Micah 1:7 OT

  All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”

• Romans 1:24 NT

  Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

• Romans 1:26 NT

  For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

• Romans 1:27 NT

  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

• 1 Corinthians 10:7 NT

  Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

• 1 Corinthians 10:8 NT

  Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

• 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.

• 1 Peter 4:4 NT

  They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

• Revelation 2:14 NT

  But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:20-22 NT

  But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she…