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Their idols

Psalm 97:7
All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isaiah 40:19
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
Isaiah 42:17
They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods."
Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
Jeremiah 10:3
for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
Hosea 8:6
For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
Habakkuk 2:18
"What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
Acts 19:26
And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

General references

Exodus 20:4
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19
An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.
Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!"

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