Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Nahum 2:7 OT

  It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

• Leviticus 18:21 OT

  “ ‘You shall not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• 1 Kings 11:5 OT

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• Isaiah 46:1 OT

  Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.

• Jeremiah 44:17 OT

  But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of…

• Jeremiah 44:25 OT

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky,…

• Acts 7:43 NT

  You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’

• Ezekiel 8:14 OT

  Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and I saw the women sit there weeping for Tammuz.

• Genesis 31:19 OT

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Genesis 31:30 OT

  Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

• Genesis 35:1-4 OT

  God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the…

• Joshua 24:2 OT

  Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

• Joshua 24:14 OT

  “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 23:3 OT

  They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

• Ezekiel 23:19 OT

  Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 23:8 OT

  She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples; and they poured out their prostitution on her.

• Acts 7:39-41 NT

  to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has…

• Exodus 20:1-5 OT

  God spoke all these words, saying, “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything…

• Exodus 23:24 OT

  You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

• Exodus 32:1-5 OT

  When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of…

• 1 Kings 12:27 OT

  If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

• 1 Chronicles 5:25 OT

  They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

• Ezekiel 16:28-30 OT

  You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied. You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to…

• Ezekiel 23:5-7 OT

  “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. She gave herself as a…