Idolatry

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• 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?

• Colossians 2:18 NT

  Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

• Romans 1:23 NT

  and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.

• Exodus 12:12 OT

  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

• Exodus 32:4 OT

  He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

• 2 Kings 18:4 OT

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• Habakkuk 1:16 OT

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

• Numbers 33:52 OT

  then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

• Isaiah 2:16 OT

  for all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

• Ezekiel 8:10 OT

  So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

• Genesis 35:4 OT

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Genesis 35:2 OT

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Exodus 20:3-6 OT

  “You shall have no other gods before me. “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: you shall not bow…

• Exodus 20:23 OT

  You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

• Exodus 23:13 OT

  “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

• Exodus 34:17 OT

  “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

• Leviticus 19:4 OT

  “ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 26:1 OT

  “ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

• Leviticus 26:30 OT

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Deuteronomy 4:15-23 OT

  Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or…

• Deuteronomy 4:25-28 OT

  When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to…

• Deuteronomy 5:7-9 OT

  “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow yourself down to…

• Deuteronomy 11:16 OT

  Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

• Deuteronomy 11:17 OT

  and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.