Deuteronomy 27:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Cursed be

Maketh

An abomination

And putteth

And all

1 Corinthians 14:16

General references

Exodus 20:4

Leviticus 18:27

Bible References

Cursed be

You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

Maketh

So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

An abomination

And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.

And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),

And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

And putteth

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

And all

And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.

And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

General references

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)