Idolatry

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Deuteronomy 11:28 OT

  and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

• Deuteronomy 16:21 OT

  You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

• Deuteronomy 16:22 OT

  Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

• Deuteronomy 27:15 OT

  ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 28:15-68 OT

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. You will be cursed in…

• Deuteronomy 30:17 OT

  But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

• Deuteronomy 30:18 OT

  I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 31:16-21 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have…

• Deuteronomy 31:29 OT

  For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke…

• Deuteronomy 32:15-26 OT

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation. They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him…

• 1 Samuel 15:23 OT

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

• 1 Kings 9:6-9 OT

  But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them; then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have…

• Psalms 44:20 OT

  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,

• Psalms 44:21 OT

  won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Psalms 59:8 OT

  But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

• Psalms 79:6 OT

  Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

• Psalms 81:9 OT

  There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

• Psalms 97:7 OT

  Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

• Isaiah 42:17 OT

  “Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

• Isaiah 45:16 OT

  They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

• Joel 3:12 OT

  “Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

• Jonah 2:8 OT

  Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

• Micah 5:15 OT

  I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn’t listen.”

• Acts 15:20 NT

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.