40 Bible Verses about statues

Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I am Jehovah your God.

'If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,

And I have cut off thy graven images, And thy standing-pillars out of thy midst, And thou dost not bow thyself any more To the work of thy hands.

and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and that it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.

Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

And this is the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,

I am Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,

and the statutes, and the judgments, and the law, and the command, that He wrote for you, ye observe to do all the days, and ye do not fear other gods;

In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;

and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.

and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.

This image! its head is of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth.

And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him;

And his wife looketh expectingly from behind him, and she is -- a pillar of salt!

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'

He. Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it -- to the end.

for Ezra hath prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel statute and judgment.

Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that are of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small;

no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

'Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.

so as to put their gods into fire -- for they are no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.

Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.

And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.

And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!