Idolatry

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Jeremiah 11:12 OT

  Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

• Jeremiah 11:17 OT

  For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.

• Jeremiah 44:3 OT

  because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 16:18 OT

  You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

• Ezekiel 23:41 OT

  and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

• Hosea 11:2 OT

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

• Judges 10:14 OT

  Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”

• Isaiah 44:17 OT

  The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my 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.

• Isaiah 46:7 OT

  They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.

• Jonah 1:5 OT

  Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast…

• Judges 16:24 OT

  When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

• Daniel 5:4 OT

  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

• 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.

• Daniel 3:5-7 OT

  that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast…

• 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.

• Jeremiah 41:5 OT

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• 1 Kings 19:18 OT

  Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

• 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 31:27 OT

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

• 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…

• 2 Kings 23:11 OT

  He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.