Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him,
Up,
make us gods,
which shall go before us; for [
as for] this Moses,
the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus 32:8 They
have turned aside quickly out of the way
which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said,
These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 32:23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for [
as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exodus 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4 Turn ye
not unto idols, nor make to yourselves
molten gods: I [
am] the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a
standing image, neither shall ye set up [
any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [
am] the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 4:15-
19 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
of similitude on the day [
that] the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: ... And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and
when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [
even] all
the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath
divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 4:23-
25 Take
heed unto yourselves,
lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and
make you a graven image, [
or] the likeness of any [
thing], which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. ... When thou shalt
beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall
corrupt [
yourselves], and make a graven image, [
or] the likeness of any [
thing], and shall
do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Deuteronomy 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee [
any]
graven image, [
or] any likeness [
of any thing] that [
is] in heaven above, or that [
is] in the earth beneath, or that [
is] in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed [be] the man that
maketh [
any] graven or molten image,
an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman,
and putteth [
it] in [
a] secret [
place].
And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen.
1 Kings 12:28 Whereupon the king
took counsel, and made
two calves [of] gold, and said unto them,
It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem:
behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 33:7 And
he set a carved image, the idol which he had made,
in the house of God, of which
God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Psalms 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols:
worship him, all [
ye] gods.
Psalms 115:4-
8 Their idols [
are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ... They that make them are like unto them; [
so is] every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms 135:15-
18 The
idols of the heathen [
are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ...
They that make them are like unto them: [
so is] every one that trusteth in them.
Isaiah 40:18-
20 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? ... He that
[is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [
that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [
that]
shall not be moved.
Isaiah 42:8 I [
am] the LORD:
that [is] my name: and
my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall
be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that
say to the molten images, Ye [
are] our gods.
Isaiah 44:9-
20 They that
make a graven image [
are] all of them vanity;
and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [
are]
their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. ... He
feedeth on ashes:
a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say,
[Is there] not a lie in my right hand?
Isaiah 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together [
that are] makers of idols.
Isaiah 46:5-
8 To whom will ye liken me, and make [
me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like? ...
Remember this, and shew yourselves men:
bring [
it] again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Jeremiah 10:3-
5 For the
customs of the people [
are] vain: for
[one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. ... They [
are] upright as the palm tree, but
speak not: they must needs
be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot
do evil, neither also [
is it] in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10:8-
9 But they are
altogether brutish and foolish:
the stock [
is] a doctrine of vanities. ...
Silver spread into plates is brought from
Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [
is] their clothing: they
[are] all the work of cunning [
men].
Jeremiah 10:14-
16 Every
man is
brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [
is] falsehood,
and [
there is] no breath in them. ... The
portion of Jacob [
is] not like them: for he [
is] the
former of all [
things]; and
Israel [
is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [
is] his name.
Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw;
and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God,
we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone,
graven by art and man's device.
Acts 19:26-
35 Moreover ye see and hear,
that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying
that they be no gods, which are
made with hands: ... And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said,
[Ye] men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is
a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the [
image] which fell down from
Jupiter?
Romans 1:23 And
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues
yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not
worship devils,
and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 13:14-
15 And
deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth by [
the means of] those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that
they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. ... And he had power to give
life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both
speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 14:9-
11 And
the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [
his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand, ... And the
smoke of their torment ascendeth up
for ever and ever: and they have
no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Revelation 16:2 And the first went, and poured out his vial
upon the earth; and there fell
a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which
had the mark of the beast, and [
upon] them which worshipped his image.
