Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
The abominations
General references
Bible References
Cast
Ezekiel 20:8
“But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them, exhausting My anger against them within the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 18:6
He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or come near a woman during her menstrual impurity.
Isaiah 2:20 On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.
The abominations
Ezekiel 6:9
Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable practices of every kind.
Ezekiel 14:6
“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your detestable things.
2 Chronicles 15:8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
General references
Leviticus 18:2
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am Yahweh your God.