'Deity' in the Bible

Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?" the Lord asks.

"Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every deity and he will utter presumptuous things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must occur.

He will attack mighty fortresses, aided by a foreign deity. To those who recognize him he will grant considerable honor. He will place them in authority over many people, and he will parcel out land for a price.

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form,