Idolatry
Forbidden -- Ex 20:2,3; De 5:7. Consists in Bowing down to images. -- Ex 20:5; De 5:9. Worshipping images. -- Isa 44:17; Da 3:5,10,15. Sacrificing to images. -- Ps 106:38; Ac 7:41. Worshipping other gods. -- De 30:17; Ps 81:9. Swearing by other gods. -- Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7. Walking after other gods. -- De 8:19. Speaking in the name of other gods. -- De 18:20. Looking to other gods. -- Ho 3:1. Serving other gods. -- De 7:4; Jer 5:19. Fearing other gods. -- 2Ki 17:35. Sacrificing to other gods. -- Ex 22:20. Worshipping the true God by an image, & c. -- Ex 32:4-6; Ps 106:19,20. Worshipping angels. -- Col 2:18. Worshipping the host of heaven. -- De 4:19; 17:3. Worshipping demons. -- Mt 4:9-10; Re 9:20. Worshipping dead men. -- Ps 106:28. Setting up idols in the heart. -- Eze 14:3,4. Covetousness. -- Eph 5:5; Col 3:5. Sensuality. -- Php 3:19. Is changing the glory of God into an image -- Ro 1:23; Ac 17:29. Is changing the truth of God into a lie -- Ro 1:25; Isa 44:20. Is a work of the flesh -- Ga 5:19,20. Incompatible with the service of God -- Ge 35:2,3; Jos 24:23; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 18:21; 2Co 6:15,16. Described as An abomination to God. -- De 7:25. Hateful to God. -- De 16:22; Jer 44:4. Vain and foolish. -- Ps 115:4-8; Isa 44:19; Jer 10:3. Bloody. -- Eze 23:39. Abominable. -- 1Pe 4:3. Unprofitable. -- Jdj 10:14; Isa 46:7. Irrational. -- Ac 17:29; Ro 1:21-23. Defiling. -- Eze 20:7; 36:18. They who practise Forget God. -- De 8:19; Jer 18:15. Go astray from God. -- Eze 44:10. Pollute the name of God. -- Eze 20:39. Defile the sanctuary of God. -- Eze 5:11. Are estranged from God. -- Eze 14:5. Forsake God. -- 2Ki 22:17; Jer 16:11. Hate God. -- 2Ch 19:2,3. Provoke God. -- De 31:20; Isa 65:3; Jer 25:6. Are vain in their imaginations. -- Ro 1:21. Are ignorant and foolish. -- Ro 1:21,22. Inflame themselves. -- Isa 57:5. Hold fast their deceit. -- Jer 8:5. Carried away by it. -- 1Co 12:2. Go after it in heart. -- Eze 20:16. Are mad upon it. -- Jer 50:38. Boast of it. -- Ps 97:7. Have fellowship with devils. -- Ho 4:12. Ask counsel of their idols. -- Ho 4:12. Look to idols for deliverance. -- Isa 44:17; 45:20. Swear by their idols. -- Am 8:14. Objects of, numerous -- 1Co 8:5. Objects of described as Strange gods. -- Ge 35:2,4; Jos 24:20. Other gods. -- Jdj 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9. New gods. -- De 32:17; Jdj 5:8. Gods that cannot save. -- Isa 45:20. Gods that have not made the heavens. -- Jer 10:11. No gods. -- Jer 5:7; Ga 4:8. Molten gods. -- Ex 34:17; Le 19:4. Molten images. -- De 27:15; Hab 2:18. Graven images. -- Isa 45:20; Ho 11:2. Senseless idols. -- De 4:28; Ps 115:5,7. Dumb idols. -- Hab 2:18. Dumb Stones. -- Hab 2:19. Stocks. -- Jer 3:9; Ho 4:12. Abominations. -- Isa 44:19; Jer 32:34. Images of abomination. -- Eze 7:20. Idols of abomination. -- Eze 16:36. Stumbling blocks. -- Eze 14:3. Teachers of lies. -- Hab 2:18. Wind and confusion. -- Isa 41:29. Nothing. -- Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4. Helpless. -- Jer 10:5. Vanity. -- Jer 18:15. Vanities of the Gentiles. -- Jer 14:22. Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed -- Isa 44:10-20. Obstinate sinners judicially given up to -- De 4:28; 28:64; Ho 4:17. Warnings against -- De 4:15-19. Exhortations to turn from -- Eze 14:6; 20:7; Ac 14:15. Renounced on conversion -- 1Th 1:9. Led to abominable sins -- Ro 1:26-32; Ac 15:20. Saints should Keep from. -- Jos 23:7; 1Jo 5:21. Flee from. -- 1Co 10:14. Not have anything connected with in their houses. -- De 7:26. Not partake of any thing connected with. -- 1Co 10:19,20. Not have religious intercourse with those who practise. -- Jos 23:7; 1Co 5:11. Not covenant with those who practise. -- Ex 34:12,15; De 7:2. Not intermarry with those who practise. -- Ex 34:16; De 7:3. Testify against. -- Ac 14:15; 19:26. Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death. -- Da 3:18. Saints preserved by God from -- 1Ki 19:18; Ro 11:4. Saints refuse to receive the worship of -- Ac 10:25,26; 14:11-15. Angels refuse to receive the worship of -- Re 22:8,9. Destruction of, promised -- Eze 36:25; Zec 13:2. Everything connected with, should be destroyed -- Ex 34:13; De 7:5; 2Sa 5:21; 2Ki 23:14. Woe denounced against -- Hab 2:19. Curse denounced against -- De 27:15. Punishment of Judicial death. -- De 17:2-5. Dreadful judgments which end in death. -- Jer 8:2; 16:1-11. Banishment. -- Jer 8:3; Ho 8:5-8; Am 5:26,27. Exclusion from heaven. -- 1Co 6:9,10; Eph 5:5; Re 22:15. Eternal torments. -- Re 14:9-11; 21:8. Exemplified Israel. -- Ex 32:1; 2Ki 17:12. Philistines. -- Jdj 16:23. Micah. -- Jdj 17:4,5. Jeroboam. -- 1Ki 12:28. Maachah. -- 1Ki 15:13. Ahab. -- 1Ki 16:31. Jezebel. -- 1Ki 18:19. Sennacherib. -- 2Ki 19:37. Manasseh. -- 2Ki 21:4-7. Amon. -- 2Ki 21:21. Ahaz. -- 2Ch 28:3. Judah. -- Jer 11:13. Nebuchadnezzar. -- Da 3:1. Belshazzar. -- Da 5:23. People of Lystra. -- Ac 14:11,12. Athenians. -- Ac 17:16. Ephesians. -- Ac 19:28. Zeal against -- Exemplified Asa. -- 1Ki 15:12. Josiah. -- 2Ki 23:5. Jehoshaphat. -- 2Ch 17:6. Israel. -- 2Ch 31:1. Manasseh. -- 2Ch 33:15. All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses -- Ex 20:4,5. All heathen nations given up to -- Ps 96:5; Ro 1:23,25; 1Co 12:2. Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapes -- Ac 14:11. Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence -- 1Ki 20:23; 2Ki 17:26. Objects of The heavenly bodies. -- 2Ki 23:5; Ac 7:42. Angels. -- Col 2:18. Departed spirits. -- 1Sa 28:14,15. Earthly creatures. -- Ro 1:23. Images. -- De 29:17; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:17. Temples built for -- Ho 8:14. Altars raised for -- 1Ki 18:26; Ho 8:11. Accompanied by feasts -- 2Ki 10:20; 1Co 10:27,28. Objects of, worshipped With sacrifices. -- Nu 22:40; 2Ki 10:24. With libations. -- Isa 57:6; Jer 19:13. With incense. -- Jer 48:35. With prayer. -- 1Ki 18:26; Isa 44:17. With singing and dancing. -- Ex 32:18,19; 1Ki 18:26; 1Co 10:7. By bowing to them. -- 1Ki 19:18; 2Ki 5:18. By kissing them. -- 1Ki 19:18; Ho 13:2. By kissing the hand to them. -- Job 31:26,27. By cutting the flesh. -- 1Ki 18:28. By burning children. -- De 12:31; 2Ch 33:6; Jer 19:4,5; Eze 16:21. In temples. -- 2Ki 5:18. On high places. -- Nu 22:41; Jer 2:20. In groves. -- Ex 34:13. Under trees. -- Isa 57:5; Jer 2:20. In private houses. -- Jdj 17:4,5. On the tops of houses. -- 2Ki 23:12; Zep 1:5. In secret places. -- Isa 57:8. Rites of, obscene and impure -- Ex 32:25; Nu 25:1-3; 2Ki 17:9; Isa 57:6,8,9; 1Pe 4:3. Divination connected with -- 2Ch 33:6. Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands -- Ac 14:13. Idols, mentioned in Scripture Adrammelech. -- 2Ki 17:31. Anammelech. -- 2Ki 17:31. Ashima. -- 2Ki 17:30. Ashtoreth. -- Jdj 2:13; 1Ki 11:33. Baal. -- Jdj 2:11-13; 6:25. Baal-berith. -- Jdj 8:33; 9:4,46. Baal-peor. -- Nu 25:1-3. Baalzebub. -- 2Ki 1:2,16. Baal-zephon. -- Ex 14:2. Bel. -- Jer 50:2; 51:44. Chemosh. -- Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33. Chiun. -- Am 5:26. Dagon. -- Jdj 16:23; 1Sa 5:1-3. Diana. -- Ac 19:24,27. Huzzab. -- Na 2:7. Jupiter. -- Ac 14:12. Mercury. -- Ac 14:12. Molech or Milcom. -- Le 18:21; 1Ki 11:5,33. Merodach. -- Jer 50:2. Nergal. -- 2Ki 17:30. Nebo. -- Isa 46:1. Nibhaz and Tartak. -- 2Ki 17:31. Nisroch. -- 2Ki 19:37. Queen of heaven. -- Jer 44:17,25. Remphan. -- Ac 7:43. Rimmon. -- 2Ki 5:18. Succothbenoth. -- 2Ki 17:30. Tammuz. -- Eze 8:14. Objects of, carried in procession -- Isa 46:7; Am 5:26; Ac 7:43. Early notice of, amongst God's professing people -- Ge 31:19,30; 35:1-4; Jos 24:2. The Jews Practised, in Egypt. -- Jos 24:14; Eze 23:3,19. Brought, out of Egypt with them. -- Eze 23:8; Ac 7:39-41. Forbidden to practise. -- Ex 20:1-5; 23:24. Often mixed up, with God's worship. -- Ex 32:1-5; 1Ki 12:27,28. Followed the Canaanites in. -- Jdj 2:11-13; 1Ch 5:25. Followed the Moabites in. -- Nu 25:1-3. Followed the Assyrians in. -- Eze 16:28-30; 23:5-7. Followed the Syrians in. -- Jdj 10:6. Adopted by Solomon -- 1Ki 11:5-8. Adopted by the wicked kings -- 1Ki 21:26; 2Ki 21:21; 2Ch 28:2-4; 33:3,7. Example of the kings encouraged Israel in -- 1Ki 12:30; 2Ki 21:11; 2Ch 33:9. Great prevalence of, in Israel -- Isa 2:8; Jer 2:28; Eze 8:10. A virtual forsaking of God -- Jer 2:9-13. The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy -- 2Ch 15:16; 34:7. Captivity of Israel on account of -- 2Ki 17:6-18. Captivity of Judah on account of -- 2Ki 17:19-23.