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  • Exodus 20:4-6
    "You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

     
  • Isaiah 40:18-20
    To whom then will you liken God?
    Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
    The workman molds an image,
    The goldsmith overspreads it with gold,
    And the silversmith casts silver chains.
    Whoever is too impoverished for such a contribution
    Chooses a tree that will not rot;
    He seeks for himself a skillful workman
    To prepare a carved image that will not totter.

     
  • Exodus 32:1-8
    Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!" So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD." Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!""
     
  • Deuteronomy 4:15-18
    "Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.
     
  • Exodus 20:22-23
    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.
     
  • Numbers 33:52
    then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
     
  • Deuteronomy 5:9
    you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
     
  • Isaiah 44:9-17
    Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
    And their precious things shall not profit;
    They are their own witnesses;
    They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
    Who would form a god or mold an image
    Thatprofits him nothing?
    Surely all his companions would be ashamed;
    And the workmen, they are mere men.
    Let them all be gathered together,
    Let them stand up;
    Yet they shall fear,
    They shall be ashamed together.
    The blacksmith with the tongs works one in the coals,
    Fashions it with hammers,
    And works it with the strength of his arms.
    Even so, he is hungry, and his strength fails;
    He drinks no water and is faint.
    The craftsman stretches out his rule,
    He marks one out with chalk;
    He fashions it with a plane,
    He marks it out with the compass,
    And makes it like the figure of a man,
    According to the beauty of a man, that it may remain in the house.
    He cuts down cedars for himself,
    And takes the cypress and the oak;
    He secures it for himself among the trees of the forest.
    He plants a pine, and the rain nourishes it.
    Then it shall be for a man to burn,
    For he will take some of it and warm himself;
    Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread;
    Indeed he makes a god and worships it;
    He makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.
    He burns half of it in the fire;
    With this half he eats meat;
    He roasts a roast, and is satisfied.
    He even warms himself and says,
    “ Ah! I am warm,
    I have seen the fire.”
    And the rest of it he makes into a god,
    His carved image.
    He falls down before it and worships it,
    Prays to it and says,
    “ Deliver me, for you are my god!”

     
  • Jeremiah 25:5-7
    They said, "Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you." Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
     
  • Amos 5:25-27
    "Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings
    In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
    You also carried Sikkuth your king
    And Chiun, your idols,
    The star of your gods,
    Which you made for yourselves.
    Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,"
    Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
     
  • Isaiah 2:8-9
    Their land is also full of idols;
    They worship the work of their own hands,
    That which their own fingers have made.
    People bow down,
    And each man humbles himself;
    Therefore do not forgive them.

     
  • Isaiah 2:17-18
    The loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
    And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
    The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
    But the idols He shall utterly abolish.

     
  • Ezekiel 20:16
    because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
     
  • Ezekiel 36:17-19
    “Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity. Therefore I poured out My fury on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols with which they had defiled it. So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.
     
  • Habakkuk 2:18-19
    "What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it,
    The molded image, a teacher of lies,
    That the maker of its mold should trust in it,
    To make mute idols?
    Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!'
    To silent stone, 'Arise! It shall teach!'
    Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
    Yet in it there is no breath at all.

     


Related Scriptures

  • John 4:24
    God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
     
  • Romans 1:23
    and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
     
  • John 1:18
    No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.