Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Their idols

Psalm 97:7
Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,
Who boast themselves of idols;
Worship Him, all you gods.
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are but silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.
Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Isaiah 40:19
As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
Isaiah 42:17
They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame,
Who trust in idols,
Who say to molten images,
“You are our gods.”
Isaiah 46:1
Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the peoples are delusion;
Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.
Hosea 8:6
For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
Habakkuk 2:18
“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

General references

Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19
As for the idol, a craftsman casts it,
A goldsmith plates it with gold,
And a silversmith fashions chains of silver.
Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!