Idolatry
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Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Idolatry'". "The New Topical Text Book".. 1897.
- Forbidden
Exodus 20:2 Exodus 20:3 ; Deuteronomy 5:7 - CONSISTS IN
- Bowing down to images
Exodus 20:5 ; Deuteronomy 5:9
- Worshipping images
Isaiah 44:17 ; Daniel 3:5 Daniel 3:10 Daniel 3:15
- Sacrificing to images
Psalms 106:38 ; Acts 7:41
- Worshipping other Gods
Deuteronomy 30:17 ; Psalms 81:9
- Swearing by other Gods
Exodus 23:13 ; Joshua 23:7
- Walking after other Gods
Deuteronomy 8:19
- Speaking in the name of other Gods
Deuteronomy 18:20
- Looking to other Gods
Hosea 3:1
- Serving other Gods
Deuteronomy 7:4 ; Jeremiah 5:19
- Fearing other Gods
2 Kings 17:35
- Sacrificing to other Gods
Exodus 22:20
- Worshipping the true God by an image, &c
Exodus 32:4-6 ; Psalms 106:19 Psalms 106:20
- Worshipping angels
Colossians 2:18
- Worshipping the host of heaven
Deuteronomy 4:19 ; 17:3
- Worshipping demons
Matthew 4:9-10 ; Revelation 9:20
- Worshipping dead men
Psalms 106:28
- Setting up idols in the heart
Ezekiel 14:3 Ezekiel 14:4
- Covetousness
Ephesians 5:5 ; Colossians 3:5
- Sensuality
Philippians 3:19
- Bowing down to images
- Is changing the glory of God into an image
Romans 1:23 ; Acts 17:29 - Is changing the truth of God into a lie
Romans 1:25 ; Isaiah 44:20 - Is a work of the flesh
Galatians 5:19 Galatians 5:20 - Incompatible with the service of God
Genesis 35:2 Genesis 35:3 ; Joshua 24:23 ; 1 Samuel 7:3 ; 1 Kings 18:21 ; 2 Corinthians 6:15 2 Corinthians 6:16 - DESCRIBED AS
- An abomination to God
Deuteronomy 7:25
- Hateful to God
Deuteronomy 16:22 ; Jeremiah 44:4
- Vain and foolish
Psalms 115:4-8 ; Isaiah 44:19 ; Jeremiah 10:3
- Bloody
Ezekiel 23:39
- Abominable
1 Peter 4:3
- Unprofitable
Judges 10:14 ; Isaiah 46:7
- Irrational
Acts 17:29 ; Romans 1:21-23
- Defiling
Ezekiel 20:7 ; 36:18
- An abomination to God
- THEY WHO PRACTISE
- Forget God
Deuteronomy 8:19 ; Jeremiah 18:15
- Go astray from God
Ezekiel 44:10
- Pollute the name of God
Ezekiel 20:39
- Defile the sanctuary of God
Ezekiel 5:11
- Are estranged from God
Ezekiel 14:5
- Forsake God
2 Kings 22:17 ; Jeremiah 16:11
- Hate God
2 Chronicles 19:2 2 Chronicles 19:3
- Provoke God
Deuteronomy 31:20 ; Isaiah 65:3 ; Jeremiah 25:6
- Are vain in their imaginations
Romans 1:21
- Are ignorant and foolish
Romans 1:21 Romans 1:22
- Inflame themselves
Isaiah 57:5
- Hold fast their deceit
Jeremiah 8:5
- Carried away by it
1 Corinthians 12:2
- Go after it in heart
Ezekiel 20:16
- Are mad upon it
Jeremiah 50:38
- Boast of it
Psalms 97:7
- Have fellowship with devils
Hosea 4:12
- Ask counsel of their idols
Hosea 4:12
- Look to idols for deliverance
Isaiah 44:17 ; 45:20
- Swear by their idols
Amos 8:14
- Forget God
- Objects of, numerous
1 Corinthians 8:5 - OBJECTS OF DESCRIBED AS
- Strange Gods
Genesis 35:2 Genesis 35:4 ; Joshua 24:20
- Other Gods
Judges 2:12 Judges 2:17 ; 1 Kings 14:9
- New Gods
Deuteronomy 32:17 ; Judges 5:8
- Gods that cannot save
Isaiah 45:20
- Gods that have not made the heavens
Jeremiah 10:11
- No Gods
Jeremiah 5:7 ; Galatians 4:8
- Molten Gods
Exodus 34:17 ; Leviticus 19:4
- Molten images
Deuteronomy 27:15 ; Habakkuk 2:18
- Graven images
Isaiah 45:20 ; Hosea 11:2
- Senseless idols
Deuteronomy 4:28 ; Psalms 115:5 Psalms 115:7
- Dumb idols
Habakkuk 2:18
- Dumb Stones
Habakkuk 2:19
- Stocks
Jeremiah 3:9 ; Hosea 4:12
- Abominations
Isaiah 44:19 ; Jeremiah 32:34
- Images of abomination
Ezekiel 7:20
- Idols of abomination
Ezekiel 16:36
- Stumbling blocks
Ezekiel 14:3
- Teachers of lies
Habakkuk 2:18
- Wind and confusion
Isaiah 41:29
- Nothing
Isaiah 41:24 ; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- Helpless
Jeremiah 10:5
- Vanity
Jeremiah 18:15
- Vanities of the Gentiles
Jeremiah 14:22
- Strange Gods
- Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed
Isaiah 44:10-20 - Obstinate sinners judicially given up to
Deuteronomy 4:28 ; 28:64 ; Hosea 4:17 - Warnings against
Deuteronomy 4:15-19 - Exhortations to turn from
Ezekiel 14:6 ; 20:7 ; Acts 14:15 - Renounced on conversion
1 Thessalonians 1:9 - Led to abominable sins
Romans 1:26-32 ; Acts 15:20 - SAINTS SHOULD
- Keep from
Joshua 23:7 ; 1 John 5:21
- Flee from
1 Corinthians 10:14
- Not have anything connected with in their houses
Deuteronomy 7:26
- Not partake of any thing connected with
1 Corinthians 10:19 1 Corinthians 10:20
- Not have religious intercourse with those who practise
Joshua 23:7 ; 1 Corinthians 5:11
- Not covenant with those who practise
Exodus 34:12 Exodus 34:15 ; Deuteronomy 7:2
- Not intermarry with those who practise
Exodus 34:16 ; Deuteronomy 7:3
- Testify against
Acts 14:15 ; 19:26
- Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death
Daniel 3:18
- Keep from
- Saints preserved by God from
1 Kings 19:18 ; Romans 11:4 - Saints refuse to receive the worship of
Acts 10:25 Acts 10:26 ; 14:11-15 - Angels refuse to receive the worship of
Revelation 22:8 Revelation 22:9 - Destruction of, promised
Ezekiel 36:25 ; Zechariah 13:2 - Everything connected with, should be destroyed
Exodus 34:13 ; Deuteronomy 7:5 ; 2 Samuel 5:21 ; 2 Kings 23:14 - Woe denounced against
Habakkuk 2:19 - Curse denounced against
Deuteronomy 27:15 - PUNISHMENT OF
- Judicial death
Deuteronomy 17:2-5
- Dreadful judgments which end in death
Jeremiah 8:2 ; 16:1-11
- Banishment
Jeremiah 8:3 ; Hosea 8:5-8 ; Amos 5:26 Amos 5:27
- Exclusion from heaven
1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:10 ; Ephesians 5:5 ; Revelation 22:15
- Eternal torments
Revelation 14:9-11 ; 21:8
- Judicial death
- Exemplified
- Israel
Exodus 32:1 ; 2 Kings 17:12
- Philistines
Judges 16:23
- Micah
Judges 17:4 Judges 17:5
- Jeroboam
1 Kings 12:28
- Maachah
1 Kings 15:13
- Ahab
1 Kings 16:31
- Jezebel
1 Kings 18:19
- Sennacherib
2 Kings 19:37
- Manasseh
2 Kings 21:4-7
- Amon
2 Kings 21:21
- Ahaz
2 Chronicles 28:3
- Judah
Jeremiah 11:13
- Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel 3:1
- Belshazzar
Daniel 5:23
- People of Lystra
Acts 14:11 Acts 14:12
- Athenians
Acts 17:16
- Ephesians
Acts 19:28
- Israel
- Zeal against-Exemplified
- Asa
1 Kings 15:12
- Josiah
2 Kings 23:5
- Jehoshaphat
2 Chronicles 17:6
- Israel
2 Chronicles 31:1
- Manasseh
2 Chronicles 33:15
- Asa
- All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses
Exodus 20:4 Exodus 20:5 - All heathen nations given up to
Psalms 96:5 ; Romans 1:23 Romans 1:25 ; 1 Corinthians 12:2 - Led the heathen to think that their Gods visited the earth in bodily shapes
Acts 14:11 - Led the heathen to consider their Gods to have but a local influence
1 Kings 20:23 ; 2 Kings 17:26 - OBJECTS OF
- The heavenly bodies
2 Kings 23:5 ; Acts 7:42
- Angels
Colossians 2:18
- Departed spirits
1 Samuel 28:14 1 Samuel 28:15
- Earthly creatures
Romans 1:23
- Images
Deuteronomy 29:17 ; Psalms 115:4 ; Isaiah 44:17
- The heavenly bodies
- Temples built for
Hosea 8:14 - Altars raised for
1 Kings 18:26 ; Hosea 8:11 - Accompanied by feasts
2 Kings 10:20 ; 1 Corinthians 10:27 1 Corinthians 10:28 - OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED
- With sacrifices
Numbers 22:40 ; 2 Kings 10:24
- With libations
Isaiah 57:6 ; Jeremiah 19:13
- With incense
Jeremiah 48:35
- With prayer
1 Kings 18:26 ; Isaiah 44:17
- With singing and dancing
Exodus 32:18 Exodus 32:19 ; 1 Kings 18:26 ; 1 Corinthians 10:7
- By bowing to them
1 Kings 19:18 ; 2 Kings 5:18
- By kissing them
1 Kings 19:18 ; Hosea 13:2
- By cutting the flesh
1 Kings 18:28
- By burning children
Deuteronomy 12:31 ; 2 Chronicles 33:6 ; Jeremiah 19:4 Jeremiah 19:5 ; Ezekiel 16:21
- In temples
2 Kings 5:18
- On high places
Numbers 22:41 ; Jeremiah 2:20
- In groves
Exodus 34:13
- Under trees
Isaiah 57:5 ; Jeremiah 2:20
- In private houses
Judges 17:4 Judges 17:5
- On the tops of houses
2 Kings 23:12 ; Zephaniah 1:5
- In secret places
Isaiah 57:8
- With sacrifices
- Rites of, obscene and impure
Exodus 32:25 ; Numbers 25:1-3 ; 2 Kings 17:9 ; Isaiah 57:6 Isaiah 57:8 Isaiah 57:9 ; 1 Peter 4:3 - Divination connected with
2 Chronicles 33:6 - Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands
Acts 14:13 - IDOLS, &c MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Adrammelech
2 Kings 17:31
- Anammelech
2 Kings 17:31
- Ashima
2 Kings 17:30
- Ashtoreth
Judges 2:13 ; 1 Kings 11:33
- Baal
Judges 2:11-13 ; 6:25
- Baal-berith
Judges 8:33 ; Judges 9:4 Judges 9:46
- Baal-peor
Numbers 25:1-3
- Baalzebub
2 Kings 1:2 2 Kings 1:16
- Baal-zephon
Exodus 14:2
- Bel
Jeremiah 50:2 ; 51:44
- Chemosh
Numbers 21:29 ; 1 Kings 11:33
- Chiun
Amos 5:26
- Dagon
Judges 16:23 ; 1 Samuel 5:1-3
- Diana
Acts 19:24 Acts 19:27
- Huzzab
Nahum 2:7
- Jupiter
Acts 14:12
- Mercury
Acts 14:12
- Molech or Milcom
Leviticus 18:21 ; 1 Kings 11:5 1 Kings 11:33
- Merodach
Jeremiah 50:2
- Nergal
2 Kings 17:30
- Nebo
Isaiah 46:1
- Nibhaz and Tartak
2 Kings 17:31
- Nisroch
2 Kings 19:37
- Queen of heaven
Jeremiah 44:17 Jeremiah 44:25
- Remphan
Acts 7:43
- Rimmon
2 Kings 5:18
- Succothbenoth
2 Kings 17:30
- Tammuz
Ezekiel 8:14
- Adrammelech
- Objects of, carried in procession
Isaiah 46:7 ; Amos 5:26 ; Acts 7:43 - Early notice of, amongst Gods professing people
Genesis 31:19 Genesis 31:30 ; 35:1-4 ; Joshua 24:2 - THE JEWS
- Practised, in Egypt
Joshua 24:14 ; Ezekiel 23:3 Ezekiel 23:19
- Brought, out of Egypt with them
Ezekiel 23:8 ; Acts 7:39-41
- Forbidden to practise
Exodus 20:1-5 ; 23:24
- Often mixed up, with Gods worship
Exodus 32:1-5 ; 1 Kings 12:27 1 Kings 12:28
- Followed the Canaanites in
Judges 2:11-13 ; 1 Chronicles 5:25
- Followed the Moabites in
Numbers 25:1-3
- Followed the Assyrians in
Ezekiel 16:28-30 ; 23:5-7
- Followed the Syrians in
Judges 10:6
- Practised, in Egypt
- Adopted by Solomon
1 Kings 11:5-8 - Adopted by the wicked kings
1 Kings 21:26 ; 2 Kings 21:21 ; 2 Chronicles 28:2-4 ; 2 Chronicles 33:3 2 Chronicles 33:7 - Example of the kings encouraged Israel in
1 Kings 12:30 ; 2 Kings 21:11 ; 2 Chronicles 33:9 - Great prevalence of, in Israel
Isaiah 2:8 ; Jeremiah 2:28 ; Ezekiel 8:10 - A virtual forsaking of God
Jeremiah 2:9-13 - The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy
2 Chronicles 15:16 ; 34:7 - Captivity of Israel on account of
2 Kings 17:6-18 - Captivity of Judah on account of
2 Kings 17:19-23
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary
[S] indicates this entry was also found in Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Idolatry'". "The New Topical Text Book".