Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 1 Corinthians 10:27 NT

  But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 10:28 NT

  But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

• Numbers 22:40 OT

  Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

• 2 Kings 10:24 OT

  So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

• Isaiah 57:6 OT

  Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

• Jeremiah 19:13 OT

  The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings…

• Jeremiah 48:35 OT

  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

• Exodus 32:18 OT

  He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”

• Exodus 32:19 OT

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• 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.”

• 2 Kings 5:18 OT

  In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon. When I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh pardon your…

• Hosea 13:2 OT

  Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

• Job 31:26 OT

  if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

• Job 31:27 OT

  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

• 1 Kings 18:28 OT

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• Deuteronomy 12:31 OT

  You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

• 2 Chronicles 33:6 OT

  He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to…

• Jeremiah 19:4 OT

  Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

• Jeremiah 19:5 OT

  and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind.

• Ezekiel 16:21 OT

  that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?

• Numbers 22:41 OT

  In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.

• Jeremiah 2:20 OT

  “For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

• 2 Kings 23:12 OT

  The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their…

• Zephaniah 1:5 OT

  those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,