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 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
• Exod 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
• Deut 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Num 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
• Exod 20:4–5You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
• 1 Cor 10:19–20Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
• Rev 13:14–15Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.
• Deut 16:21–22Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
• Exod 20:23You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
• Jer 10:3–8For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
• Deut 5:8–9You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
• Deut 4:16–19that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
• Exod 34:17You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
• Isa 48:5–8Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’
• Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
• Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Rom 2:22–23You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
• Isa 44:9–20All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Ps 97:7All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
• Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

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