40 Bible Verses about statues

" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I [am] Yahweh your God.

" 'If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them,

And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

And it was given to him to put breath into the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast both spoke and caused that all those, unless they worshiped the image of the beast, should be killed.

[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

"Now this [is] the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach [to] you [for you] {to observe} in the land that you [are] about to cross [over] into to take possession of it,

I, Yahweh, [am] your God, [so] go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them.

The statutes, the decisions, the law, and the commands that he wrote to you, you shall observe to do always, and you shall not fear other gods.

I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.

The law of Yahweh [is] perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh [is] firm, making wise [the] simple.

Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.

And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place.

And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

And what [other] great nation has for it just rules and regulations just like {this whole} law that I [am] setting {before} you {today}?

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

Then [the] Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.

The head of this statue [was] of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.

"You shall not make for yourself a divine image [with] any form that [is] in the heavens above or that [is] in the earth below or that [is] in the water below the earth.

When they got up early in the morning the next day, {there was} Dagon fallen [again] with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! The head of Dagon and the palms of his two hands were cut off, lying at the threshold; only [the body] of Dagon was left.

But his wife looked {back}, and she became a pillar of salt.

The precepts of Yahweh [are] right, making [the] heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh [is] pure, enlightening [the] eyes.

because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do [it], and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel.

You were looking on {until} a stone was chiseled out--that not by hands--and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces.

[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.

" 'You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars.

And in turn I gave to them rules [that were] not good and regulations {by which they will not live}.

to {set} their gods in the fire, for they [were] not gods, but [the] work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

But to the wicked God says, "What [right] have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},

They [are] like scarecrows in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good [is] not in them."

Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.

"And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols.

Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol [is] nothing in the world" and that "[there is] no God except one."

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the speechless idols, however you were led.

so that you may revere Yahweh your God by keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I [am] commanding you, you and your children and {grandchildren}, all the days of your life and so you may live long [lives].

For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people.