IDOL

Passages on this topic · 46

• Exodus 20:4

  “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:

• Exodus 32:3

  All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

• Exodus 32:4

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

• Exodus 32:20

  He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

• Exodus 34:15

  “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

• Exodus 34:17

  “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

• Leviticus 26:1

  “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved 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.

• Deuteronomy 4:23

  Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

• Deuteronomy 4:28

  There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

• 1 Kings 18:25

  Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• 1 Kings 18:29

  When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

• 2 Kings 19:18

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

• Psalms 115:4

  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

• Psalms 115:5

  They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

• Psalms 115:6

  They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell.

• Psalms 115:7

  They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

• Psalms 135:15

  The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

• Psalms 135:16

  They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see.

• Psalms 135:17

  They have ears, but they can’t hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

• Isaiah 2:20

  In 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;

• Isaiah 16:12

  It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

• Isaiah 30:22

  You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

• Isaiah 31:7

  For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold — sin which your own hands have made for you.

• Isaiah 37:19

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

• Isaiah 40:19

  A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

• Isaiah 40:20

  He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

• Isaiah 41:6

  Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

• Isaiah 44:9

  Everyone 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.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

• Isaiah 44:11

  Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

• Isaiah 44:12

  The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

• Isaiah 44:13

  The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.

• Isaiah 44:14

  He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.

• Isaiah 44:15

  Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

• Isaiah 44:16

  He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”

• Isaiah 44:17

  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 44:18

  They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

• Isaiah 44:19

  No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

• Ezekiel 20:32

  “‘“That which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

• Hosea 8:4

  They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

• Habakkuk 2:18

  “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

• Acts 19:24

  For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

• Acts 19:25

  whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.