Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Daniel 3:1 OT

  Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

• Daniel 5:23 OT

  but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and…

• Acts 14:11 NT

  When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”

• Acts 14:12 NT

  They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.

• Acts 17:16 NT

  Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

• Acts 19:28 NT

  When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

• 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 23:5 OT

  He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon,…

• 2 Chronicles 17:6 OT

  His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 31:1 OT

  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in…

• 2 Chronicles 33:15 OT

  He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

• Exodus 20:4 OT

  “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

• Psalms 96:5 OT

  For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

• 1 Kings 20:23 OT

  The servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we. But let’s fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

• 2 Kings 17:26 OT

  Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill…

• Acts 7:42 NT

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• 1 Samuel 28:14 OT

  He said to her, “What does he look like?” She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.

• 1 Samuel 28:15 OT

  Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I…

• Deuteronomy 29:17 OT

  and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);

• Psalms 115:4 OT

  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

• Hosea 8:14 OT

  For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

• 1 Kings 18:26 OT

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• Hosea 8:11 OT

  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

• 2 Kings 10:20 OT

  Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.