Idolatry
356 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
233 sections
- A Virtual Forsaking of God
- Abominable
- Accompanied by Feasts
- Adopted by Solomon
- Adopted by the Wicked Kings
- Ahab
- Ahaz
- All Forms of, Forbidden by the Law of Moses
- All Heathen Nations Given up To
- Altars Raised For
- Amon
- An Abomination to God
- Angels Refuse to Receive the Worship of
- Annual Feasts
- Athenians
- Belshazzar
- Bloody
- Captivity of Israel on Account of
- Captivity of Judah on Account of
- Consists in Bowing Down to Images
- Consists in Covetousness
- Consists in Fearing Other Gods
- Consists in Looking to Other Gods
- Consists in Sacrificing to Images
- Consists in Sacrificing to Other Gods
- Consists in Sensuality
- Consists in Serving Other Gods
- Consists in Setting up Idols in the Heart
- Consists in Speaking in the Name of Other Gods
- Consists in Swearing by Other Gods
- Consists in Walking After Other Gods
- Consists in Worshipping Angels
- Consists in Worshipping Dead Men
- Consists in Worshipping Demons
- Consists in Worshipping Images
- Consists in Worshipping Other Gods
- Consists in Worshipping the Host of Heaven
- Consists in Worshipping the True God by an Image
- Curse Denounced Against
- Defiling
- Denunciations Against
- Destruction of, Promised
- Divination Connected With
- Early Notice of, Amongst God's Professing People
- Ephesians
- Everything Connected With, should be Destroyed
- Example of the Kings Encouraged Israel In
- Exhortations to Turn From
- Folly of
- Forbidden
- Great Prevalence of, in Israel
- Hateful to God
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Adrammelech
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Anammelech
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashima
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashtoreth
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Berith
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Peor
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baalzebub
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Zephon
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Bel
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chemosh
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chiun
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Dagon
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Diana
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Huzzab
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Jupiter
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Mercury
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Merodach
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Molech or Milcom
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nebo
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nergal
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nibhaz and Tartak
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nisroch
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Queen of Heaven
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Remphan
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Rimmon
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Succothbenoth
- Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Tammuz
- Incompatible with the Service of God
- Irrational
- Israel
- Jeroboam
- Jezebel
- Judah
- Led the Heathen to Consider Their Gods to Have but a Local
- Led the Heathen to Think That Their Gods Visited the Earth In
- Led to Abominable Sins
- Maachah
- Making Idols for the Purpose of, Described and Ridiculed
- Manasseh
- Micah
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Objects of Angels
- Objects of Animals
- Objects of Brazen Serpent
- Objects of Departed Spirits
- Objects of Described as Abominations
- Objects of Described as Dumb Idols
- Objects of Described as Dumb Stones
- Objects of Described as Gods That Cannot Save
- Objects of Described as Gods That Have not Made the Heavens
- Objects of Described as Graven Images
- Objects of Described as Helpless
- Objects of Described as Idols of Abomination
- Objects of Described as Images of Abomination
- Objects of Described as Molten Gods
- Objects of Described as Molten Images
- Objects of Described as New Gods
- Objects of Described as No Gods
- Objects of Described as Nothing
- Objects of Described as Other Gods
- Objects of Described as Senseless Idols
- Objects of Described as Stocks
- Objects of Described as Strange Gods
- Objects of Described as Stumbling Blocks
- Objects of Described as Teachers of Lies
- Objects of Described as Vanities of the Gentiles
- Objects of Described as Vanity
- Objects of Described as Wind and Confusion
- Objects of Earrings
- Objects of Earthly Creatures
- Objects of Gods of Egypt
- Objects of Golden Calf
- Objects of Images
- Objects of Images of Angels
- Objects of Net and Drag
- Objects of Pictures
- Objects of Pictures on Walls
- Objects of Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Objects of The Heavenly Bodies
- Objects of, Carried in Procession
- Objects of, Numerous
- Objects of, Worshipped by Bowing to Them
- Objects of, Worshipped by Burning Children
- Objects of, Worshipped by Cutting the Flesh
- Objects of, Worshipped by Kissing the Hand to Them
- Objects of, Worshipped by Kissing Them
- Objects of, Worshipped in Groves
- Objects of, Worshipped in Private Houses
- Objects of, Worshipped in Secret Places
- Objects of, Worshipped in Temples
- Objects of, Worshipped with Incense
- Objects of, Worshipped with Libations
- Objects of, Worshipped with Prayer
- Objects of, Worshipped with Sacrifices
- Objects of, Worshipped with Singing and Dancing
- Objects of, Worshipped: On High Places
- Objects of, Worshipped: On the Tops of Houses
- Objects of, Worshipped: Under Trees
- Obstinate Sinners Judicially Given up To
- Other Customs of Bowing
- Other Customs of Cutting the Flesh
- Other Customs of Incense Burned on Altars
- Other Customs of Kissing
- Other Customs of Libations
- Other Customs of Libations of Blood
- Other Customs of Libations of Wine
- Other Customs of Meat offerings
- Other Customs of Music
- Other Customs of Offered Burnt offerings
- Other Customs of Peace offerings
- Other Customs of Praise
- Other Customs of Prayers to Idols
- Other Customs of Singing and Dancing
- Other Customs of Tithes and Gifts
- People of Lystra
- Philistines
- Prophecies Relating To
- Punishment of Banishment
- Punishment of Dreadful Judgments Which End in Death
- Punishment of Eternal Torments
- Punishment of Exclusion from Heaven
- Punishment of Judicial Death
- Renounced on Conversion
- Rites of, Obscene and Impure
- Saints Preserved by God From
- Saints Refuse to Receive the Worship of
- Saints should Flee From
- Saints should Keep From
- Saints should not Covenant with Those Who Practise
- Saints should not Have Anything Connected with in Their Houses
- Saints should not Have Religious Intercourse with Those Who Practise
- Saints should not Intermarry with Those Who Practise
- Saints should not Partake of Any Thing Connected With
- Saints should Refuse to Engage In, Though Threatened with Death
- Saints should Testify Against
- Sennacherib
- Temples Built For
- The Good Kings of Judah Endeavoured to Destroy
- The Jews: Brought, out of Egypt with Them
- The Jews: Followed the Assyrians In
- The Jews: Followed the Canaanites In
- The Jews: Followed the Moabites In
- The Jews: Followed the Syrians In
- The Jews: Forbidden to Practise
- The Jews: Often Mixed Up, with God's Worship
- The Jews: Practised, in Egypt
- They Who Practise are Estranged from God
- They Who Practise are Ignorant and Foolish
- They Who Practise are Mad Upon It
- They Who Practise are Vain in Their Imaginations
- They Who Practise: Ask Counsel of Their Idols
- They Who Practise: Boast of It
- They Who Practise: Carried Away by It
- They Who Practise: Defile the Sanctuary of God
- They Who Practise: Forget God
- They Who Practise: Forsake God
- They Who Practise: Go After It in Heart
- They Who Practise: Go Astray from God
- They Who Practise: Hate God
- They Who Practise: Have Fellowship with Devils
- They Who Practise: Hold Fast Their Deceit
- They Who Practise: Inflame Themselves
- They Who Practise: Look to Idols for Deliverance
- They Who Practise: Pollute the Name of God
- They Who Practise: Provoke God
- They Who Practise: Swear by Their Idols
- Unprofitable
- Vain and Foolish
- Victims Sacrificed In, often Adorned with Garlands
- Warnings Against
- Warnings Against, and Punishments of
- Wicked Practices of Human Sacrifices
- Wicked Practices of Licentiousness of
- Wicked Practices of Practices of, Relating to the Dead
- Woe Denounced Against
- Zeal Against: Asa
- Zeal Against: Israel
- Zeal Against: Jehoshaphat
- Zeal Against: Josiah
- Zeal Against: Manasseh
A Virtual Forsaking of God
- Jeremiah 2:9–13 Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children. …
Abominable
- 1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, …
Accompanied by Feasts
- 2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu commanded, “Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they announced it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:27–28 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience. …
Adopted by Solomon
- 1 Kings 11:5–8 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. …
Adopted by the Wicked Kings
- 1 Kings 21:26 He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
- 2 Kings 21:21 He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
- 2 Chronicles 28:2–4 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals. …
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah …
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son …
Ahab
- 1 Kings 16:31 And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of …
Ahaz
- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of …
All Forms of, Forbidden by the Law of Moses
- Exodus 20:4–5 You 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. …
All Heathen Nations Given up To
- Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy …
- 1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
Altars Raised For
- 1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O …
- Hosea 8:11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
Amon
- 2 Kings 21:21 He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
An Abomination to God
- Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you …
Angels Refuse to Receive the Worship of
- Revelation 22:8–9 And I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of …
Annual Feasts
- 1 Kings 12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered …
- Ezekiel 18:6 He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a …
- Ezekiel 18:11–12 though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife. …
- Ezekiel 18:15 He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
- Ezekiel 22:9 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
- Daniel 3:2–3 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and …
Athenians
- Acts 17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
Belshazzar
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank …
Bloody
- Ezekiel 23:39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this …
Captivity of Israel on Account of
- 2 Kings 17:6–18 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled …
Captivity of Judah on Account of
- 2 Kings 17:19–23 and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced. …
Consists in Bowing Down to Images
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers …
- Deuteronomy 5:9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers …
Consists in Covetousness
- Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of …
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which …
Consists in Fearing Other Gods
- 2 Kings 17:35 For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not …
Consists in Looking to Other Gods
- Hosea 3:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the …
Consists in Sacrificing to Images
- Psalm 106:38 They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was …
- Acts 7:41 At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Consists in Sacrificing to Other Gods
- Exodus 22:20 If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
Consists in Sensuality
- Philippians 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Consists in Serving Other Gods
- Deuteronomy 7:4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, …
- Jeremiah 5:19 And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you …
Consists in Setting up Idols in the Heart
- Ezekiel 14:3–4 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult …
Consists in Speaking in the Name of Other Gods
- Deuteronomy 18:20 But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other …
Consists in Swearing by Other Gods
- Exodus 23:13 Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
- Joshua 23:7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by …
Consists in Walking After Other Gods
- Deuteronomy 8:19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that …
Consists in Worshipping Angels
- Colossians 2:18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has …
Consists in Worshipping Dead Men
- Psalm 106:28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Consists in Worshipping Demons
- Matthew 4:9–10 “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.” …
- Revelation 9:20 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop …
Consists in Worshipping Images
- Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- Daniel 3:5 As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and …
- Daniel 3:10 You, O king, have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds …
- Daniel 3:15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down …
Consists in Worshipping Other Gods
- Deuteronomy 30:17 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
- Psalm 81:9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
Consists in Worshipping the Host of Heaven
- Deuteronomy 4:19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars— all the host of heaven— do not be enticed to bow down and …
- Deuteronomy 17:3 and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven— which I have forbidden—
Consists in Worshipping the True God by an Image
- Exodus 32:4–6 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O …
- Psalm 106:19–20 At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image. …
Curse Denounced Against
- Deuteronomy 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 — …
Defiling
- Ezekiel 20:7 And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the …
- Ezekiel 36:18 So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
Denunciations Against
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and …
- Exodus 20:3–6 You shall have no other gods before Me. …
- Exodus 20:23 You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
- Exodus 23:13 Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
- Exodus 34:17 You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
- Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 26:1 “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your …
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your …
- Deuteronomy 4:15–23 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful …
- Deuteronomy 4:25–28 After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol …
- Deuteronomy 5:7–9 You shall have no other gods before Me. …
- Deuteronomy 11:16–17 But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, …
- Deuteronomy 11:28 but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following …
- Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. …
- Deuteronomy 16:21–22 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, …
- Deuteronomy 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 — …
- Deuteronomy 28:15–68 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, …
- Deuteronomy 30:17–18 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, …
- Deuteronomy 31:16–21 And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with …
- Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to …
- Deuteronomy 32:15–26 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of …
- 1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word …
- 1 Kings 9:6–9 But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, …
- Job 31:26–28 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, …
- Psalm 16:4 Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
- Psalm 44:20–21 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, …
- Psalm 59:8 But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
- Psalm 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
- Psalm 81:9 There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
- Psalm 97:7 All worshipers of images are put to shame — those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
- Isaiah 42:17 But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
- Isaiah 45:16 They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
- Joel 3:12 Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
- Jonah 2:8 Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Micah 5:15 I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
- Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his …
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled …
- Acts 15:29 You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You …
- Acts 17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
- Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy …
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor …
- 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- 1 Corinthians 10:20–22 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. …
- 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, …
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Destruction of, Promised
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Zechariah 13:2 And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be …
Divination Connected With
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted …
Early Notice of, Amongst God's Professing People
- Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- Genesis 31:30 Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
- Genesis 35:1–4 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you …
- Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the …
Ephesians
- Acts 19:28 When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Everything Connected With, should be Destroyed
- Exodus 34:13 Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- Deuteronomy 7:5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, …
- 2 Samuel 5:21 There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
- 2 Kings 23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
Example of the Kings Encouraged Israel In
- 1 Kings 12:30 And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
- 2 Kings 21:11 “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and …
- 2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had …
Exhortations to Turn From
- Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces …
- Ezekiel 20:7 And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the …
- Acts 14:15 “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these …
Folly of
- Exodus 32:20 Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the …
- Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Deuteronomy 32:37–38 He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, …
- Judges 6:31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case …
- Judges 10:14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
- 1 Samuel 5:3–4 When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they …
- 1 Samuel 12:21 Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
- 1 Kings 18:27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a …
- 2 Kings 3:13 Elisha, however, said to the king of Israel, “What have we to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and of your …
- 2 Kings 19:18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone — the work of human hands.
- 2 Chronicles 25:15 Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s …
- 2 Chronicles 28:22–23 In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. …
- Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Psalm 106:20 They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- Psalm 115:4–5 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. …
- Psalm 115:8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Psalm 135:15–18 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. …
- Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
- Isaiah 16:12 When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
- Isaiah 36:18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from …
- Isaiah 37:19 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone — the work of human hands.
- Isaiah 40:12–26 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust …
- Isaiah 41:23–24 Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on …
- Isaiah 41:26–29 Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one …
- Isaiah 43:9 All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? …
- Isaiah 44:9–20 All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they …
- Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a …
- Isaiah 46:1–2 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal. …
- Isaiah 46:6–7 They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow …
- Isaiah 47:12–15 So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps …
- Isaiah 57:13 When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. …
- Jeremiah 2:28 But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods …
- Jeremiah 10:3–16 For 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. …
- Jeremiah 11:12 Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, …
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put …
- Jeremiah 16:19–20 O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, …
- Jeremiah 48:13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
- Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, …
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank …
- Hosea 8:5–6 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? …
- Habakkuk 2:18–19 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; …
- Zechariah 10:2 For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander …
- Acts 14:15 “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these …
- Acts 17:22–23 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. …
- Acts 17:29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by …
- Romans 1:22–23 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, …
- 1 Corinthians 8:4–5 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:19 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
- Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
- Revelation 9:20 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop …
Forbidden
- Exodus 20:2–3 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. …
- Deuteronomy 5:7 You shall have no other gods before Me.
Great Prevalence of, in Israel
- Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
- Jeremiah 2:28 But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods …
- Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with …
Hateful to God
- Deuteronomy 16:22 and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- Jeremiah 44:4 Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Adrammelech
- 2 Kings 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Anammelech
- 2 Kings 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashima
- 2 Kings 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashtoreth
- Judges 2:13 for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
- 1 Kings 11:33 For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal
- Judges 2:11–13 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. …
- Judges 6:25 On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Berith
- Judges 8:33 And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
- Judges 9:4 So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless …
- Judges 9:46 On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Peor
- Numbers 25:1–3 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baalzebub
- 2 Kings 1:2 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed …
- 2 Kings 1:16 And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Zephon
- Exodus 14:2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Bel
- Jeremiah 50:2 “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel …
- Jeremiah 51:44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chemosh
- Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to …
- 1 Kings 11:33 For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chiun
- Amos 5:26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Dagon
- Judges 16:23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our …
- 1 Samuel 5:1–3 After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Diana
- Acts 19:24 It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.
- Acts 19:27 There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Huzzab
- Nahum 2:7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Jupiter
- Acts 14:12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Mercury
- Acts 14:12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Merodach
- Jeremiah 50:2 “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Molech or Milcom
- Leviticus 18:21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
- 1 Kings 11:5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 1 Kings 11:33 For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nebo
- Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nergal
- 2 Kings 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nibhaz and Tartak
- 2 Kings 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nisroch
- 2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Queen of Heaven
- Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just …
- Jeremiah 44:25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Remphan
- Acts 7:43 You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Rimmon
- 2 Kings 5:18 Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he …
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Succothbenoth
- 2 Kings 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Tammuz
- Ezekiel 8:14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.
Incompatible with the Service of God
- Genesis 35:2–3 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and …
- Joshua 24:23 “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
- 1 Samuel 7:3 Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign …
- 1 Kings 18:21 Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. …
- 2 Corinthians 6:15–16 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? …
Irrational
- Acts 17:29 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by …
- Romans 1:21–23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking …
Israel
- Exodus 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make …
- 2 Kings 17:12 They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
Jeroboam
- 1 Kings 12:28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O …
Jezebel
- 1 Kings 18:19 Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred …
Judah
- Jeremiah 11:13 Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up— the altars to burn incense to …
Led the Heathen to Consider Their Gods to Have but a Local
- 1 Kings 20:23 Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. …
- 2 Kings 17:26 So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know …
Led the Heathen to Think That Their Gods Visited the Earth In
- Acts 14:11 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in …
Led to Abominable Sins
- Romans 1:26–32 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. …
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled …
Maachah
- 1 Kings 15:13 He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa …
Making Idols for the Purpose of, Described and Ridiculed
- Isaiah 44:10–20 Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? …
Manasseh
- 2 Kings 21:4–7 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” …
Micah
- Judges 17:4–5 So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them …
Nebuchadnezzar
- Daniel 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the …
Objects of Angels
- Colossians 2:18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has …
Objects of Animals
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Objects of Brazen Serpent
- 2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake …
Objects of Departed Spirits
- 1 Samuel 28:14–15 “What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it …
Objects of Described as Abominations
- Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked …
- Jeremiah 32:34 They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
Objects of Described as Dumb Idols
- Habakkuk 2:18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; …
Objects of Described as Dumb Stones
- Habakkuk 2:19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and …
Objects of Described as Gods That Cannot Save
- Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a …
Objects of Described as Gods That Have not Made the Heavens
- Jeremiah 10:11 Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from …
Objects of Described as Graven Images
- Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a …
- Hosea 11:2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Objects of Described as Helpless
- Jeremiah 10:5 Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, …
Objects of Described as Idols of Abomination
- Ezekiel 16:36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your …
Objects of Described as Images of Abomination
- Ezekiel 7:20 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I …
Objects of Described as Molten Gods
- Exodus 34:17 You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
- Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
Objects of Described as Molten Images
- Deuteronomy 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 — …
- Habakkuk 2:18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; …
Objects of Described as New Gods
- Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
- Judges 5:8 When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Objects of Described as No Gods
- Jeremiah 5:7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they …
- Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Objects of Described as Nothing
- Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Objects of Described as Other Gods
- Judges 2:12 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after …
- Judges 2:17 Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. …
- 1 Kings 14:9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to …
Objects of Described as Senseless Idols
- Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Psalm 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
- Psalm 115:7 they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.
Objects of Described as Stocks
- Jeremiah 3:9 Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
- Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and …
Objects of Described as Strange Gods
- Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and …
- Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Joshua 24:20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
Objects of Described as Stumbling Blocks
- Ezekiel 14:3 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult …
Objects of Described as Teachers of Lies
- Habakkuk 2:18 What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; …
Objects of Described as Vanities of the Gentiles
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put …
Objects of Described as Vanity
- Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient …
Objects of Described as Wind and Confusion
- Isaiah 41:29 See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Objects of Earrings
- Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
Objects of Earthly Creatures
- Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Objects of Gods of Egypt
- Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute …
Objects of Golden Calf
- Exodus 32:4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O …
Objects of Images
- Deuteronomy 29:17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
- Psalm 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
Objects of Images of Angels
- Colossians 2:18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has …
Objects of Net and Drag
- Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his …
Objects of Pictures
- Numbers 33:52 you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all …
- Isaiah 2:16 against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.
Objects of Pictures on Walls
- Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with …
Objects of Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Deuteronomy 4:19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars— all the host of heaven— do not be enticed to bow down and …
- 2 Kings 17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. …
- 2 Kings 21:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, …
- 2 Kings 21:5 In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah …
- 2 Chronicles 33:5 In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
- Job 31:26–28 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, …
- Jeremiah 7:17–20 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? …
- Jeremiah 8:2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and …
- Ezekiel 8:15–16 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.” …
- Zephaniah 1:4–5 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of …
- Acts 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the …
Objects of The Heavenly Bodies
- 2 Kings 23:5 Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities …
- Acts 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the …
Objects of, Carried in Procession
- Isaiah 46:7 They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. …
- Amos 5:26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
- Acts 7:43 You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will …
Objects of, Numerous
- 1 Corinthians 8:5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
Objects of, Worshipped by Bowing to Them
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- 2 Kings 5:18 Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he …
Objects of, Worshipped by Burning Children
- Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. …
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted …
- Jeremiah 19:4–5 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither …
- Ezekiel 16:21 You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
Objects of, Worshipped by Cutting the Flesh
- 1 Kings 18:28 So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
Objects of, Worshipped by Kissing the Hand to Them
- Job 31:26–27 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, …
Objects of, Worshipped by Kissing Them
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of …
Objects of, Worshipped in Groves
- Exodus 34:13 Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Objects of, Worshipped in Private Houses
- Judges 17:4–5 So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them …
Objects of, Worshipped in Secret Places
- Isaiah 57:8 Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it …
Objects of, Worshipped in Temples
- 2 Kings 5:18 Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he …
Objects of, Worshipped with Incense
- Jeremiah 48:35 In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
Objects of, Worshipped with Libations
- Isaiah 57:6 Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink …
- Jeremiah 19:13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth— all the houses on whose …
Objects of, Worshipped with Prayer
- 1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O …
- Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
Objects of, Worshipped with Sacrifices
- Numbers 22:40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.
- 2 Kings 10:24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone …
Objects of, Worshipped with Singing and Dancing
- Exodus 32:18–19 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!” …
- 1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O …
- 1 Corinthians 10:7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”
Objects of, Worshipped: On High Places
- Numbers 22:41 The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the outskirts of the camp of the people.
- Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under …
Objects of, Worshipped: On the Tops of Houses
- 2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that …
- Zephaniah 1:5 those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
Objects of, Worshipped: Under Trees
- Isaiah 57:5 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under …
Obstinate Sinners Judicially Given up To
- Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other …
- Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
Other Customs of Bowing
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- 2 Kings 5:18 Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he …
Other Customs of Cutting the Flesh
- 1 Kings 18:28 So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
- Jeremiah 41:5 eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, …
Other Customs of Incense Burned on Altars
- 1 Kings 12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in …
- 2 Chronicles 30:14 They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their …
- Isaiah 65:3 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
- Jeremiah 1:16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense …
- Jeremiah 11:12 Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, …
- Jeremiah 11:17 The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the …
- Jeremiah 44:3 because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither …
- Jeremiah 48:35 In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
- Ezekiel 16:18 You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.
- Ezekiel 23:41 You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
- Hosea 11:2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Other Customs of Kissing
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- Hosea 13:2 Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of …
- Job 31:27 so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Other Customs of Libations
- Isaiah 57:6 Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink …
- Isaiah 65:11 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
- Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour …
- Jeremiah 19:13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth— all the houses on whose …
- Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those …
- Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just …
- Jeremiah 44:19 “Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without …
- Jeremiah 44:25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and …
- Ezekiel 20:28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their …
Other Customs of Libations of Blood
- Psalm 16:4 Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.
- Zechariah 9:7 I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for …
Other Customs of Libations of Wine
- Deuteronomy 32:38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
Other Customs of Meat offerings
- Isaiah 57:6 Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink …
- Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour …
- Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just …
- Ezekiel 16:19 And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you— the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is …
Other Customs of Music
- Daniel 3:5–7 As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and …
Other Customs of Offered Burnt offerings
- Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and …
- 1 Kings 18:26 And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O …
- Acts 14:13 The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a …
Other Customs of Peace offerings
- Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and …
Other Customs of Praise
- Judges 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our …
- Daniel 5:4 As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Other Customs of Prayers to Idols
- Judges 10:14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
- Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a …
- Isaiah 46:7 They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. …
- Jonah 1:5 The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But …
Other Customs of Singing and Dancing
- Exodus 32:18–19 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!” …
Other Customs of Tithes and Gifts
- 2 Kings 23:11 And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were …
- Daniel 11:38 And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses— a god his fathers did not know— with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.
- Amos 4:4–5 “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. …
People of Lystra
- Acts 14:11–12 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in …
Philistines
- Judges 16:23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our …
Prophecies Relating To
- Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute …
- Numbers 33:4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.
- Isaiah 2:18 and the idols will vanish completely.
- Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold — the idols they made to worship.
- Isaiah 17:7–8 In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. …
- Isaiah 19:1 This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble …
- Isaiah 21:9 Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods …
- Isaiah 27:9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the …
- Isaiah 31:7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
- Jeremiah 10:11 Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from …
- Jeremiah 10:15 They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
- Jeremiah 51:44 I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall …
- Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her …
- Jeremiah 51:52 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
- Ezekiel 43:7–9 and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among …
- Hosea 10:2 Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
- Micah 5:13 I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- Zephaniah 2:11 The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in …
- Zechariah 13:2 And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be …
Punishment of Banishment
- Jeremiah 8:3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Hosea 8:5–8 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? …
- Amos 5:26–27 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves. …
Punishment of Dreadful Judgments Which End in Death
- Jeremiah 8:2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and …
- Jeremiah 16:1–11 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, …
Punishment of Eternal Torments
- Revelation 14:9–11 And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark …
- Revelation 21:8 But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, …
Punishment of Exclusion from Heaven
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor …
- Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of …
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Punishment of Judicial Death
- Deuteronomy 17:2–5 If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD …
Renounced on Conversion
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
Rites of, Obscene and Impure
- Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
- Numbers 25:1–3 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, …
- 2 Kings 17:9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built …
- Isaiah 57:6 Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink …
- Isaiah 57:8–9 Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it …
- 1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, …
Saints Preserved by God From
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- Romans 11:4 And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Saints Refuse to Receive the Worship of
- Acts 10:25–26 As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him. …
- Acts 14:11–15 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in …
Saints should Flee From
- 1 Corinthians 10:14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Saints should Keep From
- Joshua 23:7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by …
- 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Saints should not Covenant with Those Who Practise
- Exodus 34:12 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
- Exodus 34:15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, …
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make …
Saints should not Have Anything Connected with in Their Houses
- Deuteronomy 7:26 And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to …
Saints should not Have Religious Intercourse with Those Who Practise
- Joshua 23:7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by …
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater …
Saints should not Intermarry with Those Who Practise
- Exodus 34:16 And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and …
- Deuteronomy 7:3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
Saints should not Partake of Any Thing Connected With
- 1 Corinthians 10:19–20 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? …
Saints should Refuse to Engage In, Though Threatened with Death
- Daniel 3:18 But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”
Saints should Testify Against
- Acts 14:15 “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these …
- Acts 19:26 And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, this Paul has persuaded a great …
Sennacherib
- 2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and …
Temples Built For
- Hosea 8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their …
The Good Kings of Judah Endeavoured to Destroy
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. …
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the …
The Jews: Brought, out of Egypt with Them
- Ezekiel 23:8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and …
- Acts 7:39–41 But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. …
The Jews: Followed the Assyrians In
- Ezekiel 16:28–30 Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied. …
- Ezekiel 23:5–7 Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians — warriors …
The Jews: Followed the Canaanites In
- Judges 2:11–13 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. …
- 1 Chronicles 5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, …
The Jews: Followed the Moabites In
- Numbers 25:1–3 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, …
The Jews: Followed the Syrians In
- Judges 10:6 And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and …
The Jews: Forbidden to Practise
- Exodus 20:1–5 And God spoke all these words: …
- Exodus 23:24 You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their …
The Jews: Often Mixed Up, with God's Worship
- Exodus 32:1–5 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make …
- 1 Kings 12:27–28 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam …
The Jews: Practised, in Egypt
- Joshua 24:14 Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates …
- Ezekiel 23:3 and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
- Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
They Who Practise are Estranged from God
- Ezekiel 14:5 so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
They Who Practise are Ignorant and Foolish
- Romans 1:21–22 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking …
They Who Practise are Mad Upon It
- Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
They Who Practise are Vain in Their Imaginations
- Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking …
They Who Practise: Ask Counsel of Their Idols
- Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and …
They Who Practise: Boast of It
- Psalm 97:7 All worshipers of images are put to shame — those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
They Who Practise: Carried Away by It
- 1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.
They Who Practise: Defile the Sanctuary of God
- Ezekiel 5:11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and …
They Who Practise: Forget God
- Deuteronomy 8:19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that …
- Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient …
They Who Practise: Forsake God
- 2 Kings 22:17 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their …
- Jeremiah 16:11 Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served …
They Who Practise: Go After It in Heart
- Ezekiel 20:16 because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts …
They Who Practise: Go Astray from God
- Ezekiel 44:10 Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear …
They Who Practise: Hate God
- 2 Chronicles 19:2–3 Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who …
They Who Practise: Have Fellowship with Devils
- Hosea 4:12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and …
They Who Practise: Hold Fast Their Deceit
- Jeremiah 8:5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
They Who Practise: Inflame Themselves
- Isaiah 57:5 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
They Who Practise: Look to Idols for Deliverance
- Isaiah 44:17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a …
They Who Practise: Pollute the Name of God
- Ezekiel 20:39 And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you …
They Who Practise: Provoke God
- Deuteronomy 31:20 When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat …
- Isaiah 65:3 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
- Jeremiah 25:6 Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do …
They Who Practise: Swear by Their Idols
- Amos 8:14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba …
Unprofitable
- Judges 10:14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
- Isaiah 46:7 They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. …
Vain and Foolish
- Psalm 115:4–8 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. …
- Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked …
- Jeremiah 10:3 For 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.
Victims Sacrificed In, often Adorned with Garlands
- Acts 14:13 The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a …
Warnings Against
- Deuteronomy 4:15–19 So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful …
Warnings Against, and Punishments of
- Deuteronomy 17:2–5 If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD …
- 2 Chronicles 28:23 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped …
- Nehemiah 9:27–37 So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From …
- Psalm 78:58–64 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. …
- Psalm 106:34–42 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, …
- Isaiah 1:29–31 Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. …
- Isaiah 2:6–22 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are …
- Isaiah 30:22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, …
- Isaiah 57:3–13 “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! …
- Isaiah 65:3–4 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick, …
- Jeremiah 1:15–16 For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their …
- Jeremiah 3:1–11 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely …
- Jeremiah 5:1–17 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who …
- Jeremiah 7:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- Jeremiah 8:1–2 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the …
- Jeremiah 8:19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer …
- Jeremiah 13:9–27 “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. …
- Jeremiah 16:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Jeremiah 17:1–6 “The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns …
- Jeremiah 18:13–15 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a …
- Jeremiah 19:1 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
- Jeremiah 22:9 Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
- Jeremiah 32:35 They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to …
- Jeremiah 44:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt— in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis— …
- Jeremiah 48:8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will …
- Ezekiel 6:1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 7:19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the …
- Ezekiel 8:5–18 “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north …
- Ezekiel 9:1 Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”
- Ezekiel 14:1–14 Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me. …
- Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 20:1 In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat …
- Ezekiel 22:4 you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close …
- Ezekiel 23:1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 44:10–12 Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear …
- Hosea 1:2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because …
- Hosea 2:2–5 Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and …
- Hosea 4:12–19 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and …
- Hosea 5:1–3 “Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have …
- Hosea 8:5–14 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? …
- Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they …
- Hosea 10:1 Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The …
- Hosea 11:2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- Hosea 12:11–14 Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be …
- Hosea 13:1–4 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. …
- Hosea 14:8 O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your …
- Amos 3:14 On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar …
- Amos 4:4–5 “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. …
- Amos 5:5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
- Micah 1:1–9 This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah — what he …
- Micah 5:12–14 I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers. …
- Micah 6:16 You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make …
- Zephaniah 1:1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, …
- Malachi 2:11–13 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved …
Wicked Practices of Human Sacrifices
- Leviticus 18:21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 20:2–5 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. …
- Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. …
- Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, …
- 2 Kings 3:26–27 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to …
- 2 Kings 16:3 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of …
- 2 Kings 17:17–18 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing …
- 2 Kings 21:6 He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil …
- 2 Kings 23:10 He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of …
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted …
- Psalm 106:37–38 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. …
- Isaiah 57:5 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Jeremiah 7:31 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire — …
- Jeremiah 19:4–7 because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither …
- Jeremiah 32:35 They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to …
- Ezekiel 16:20–21 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? …
- Ezekiel 20:26 And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire — so that I might devastate …
- Ezekiel 20:31 When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. …
- Ezekiel 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even …
- Ezekiel 23:39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this …
- Micah 6:7 Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my …
Wicked Practices of Licentiousness of
- Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and …
- Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
- Numbers 25:1–3 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, …
- 1 Kings 14:24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out …
- 1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 2 Kings 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
- 2 Kings 23:7 He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven …
- Ezekiel 16:17 You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
- Ezekiel 23:1–44 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, …
- Hosea 4:12–14 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and …
- Amos 2:8 They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
- Micah 1:7 All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. …
- Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- Romans 1:26–27 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. …
- 1 Corinthians 10:7–8 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” …
- 1 Peter 4:3–4 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, …
- Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling …
- Revelation 2:20–22 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My …
- Revelation 9:20–21 Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop …
- Revelation 14:8 Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the …
- Revelation 17:1–6 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great …
Wicked Practices of Practices of, Relating to the Dead
- Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
Woe Denounced Against
- Habakkuk 2:19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and …
Zeal Against: Asa
- 1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Zeal Against: Israel
- 2 Chronicles 31:1 When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped …
Zeal Against: Jehoshaphat
- 2 Chronicles 17:6 And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
Zeal Against: Josiah
- 2 Kings 23:5 Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities …
Zeal Against: Manasseh
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.