Leviticus 26:1

God forbids idols, images, and worship of any object, because He alone is Israel's God. True worship belongs to the LORD alone.

Cross-references · 21

• Lev 19:4“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
• Exod 23:24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
• Deut 27:15‘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.’
• Num 33:52then 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.
• Exod 20:4–5“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:
• 1 Cor 10:19–20What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
• Rev 13:14–15He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
• Deut 16:21–22You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
• Exod 20:23You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.
• Jer 10:3–8For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.
• Deut 5:8–9“You shall not make an engraved 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.
• Deut 4:16–19lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
• Exod 34:17“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
• Isa 48:5–8therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to you; lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.’
• Acts 17:29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
• Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Rom 2:22–23You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
• Isa 44:9–20Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Ps 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
• Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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