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Bible References

Their idols

Psalm 97:7
All who serve carved images and those who praise idols will be humiliated. Worship him, all you "gods"!
Psalm 135:15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, worked by the hands of human beings.
Deuteronomy 4:28
There you'll serve gods made by human hands, serving trees and stones that cannot see, hear, eat, nor smell.
Isaiah 40:19
To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.
Isaiah 42:17
Those who trust in carved idols will turn back and be completely disappointed, along with those who say to metal images, "You are our gods.'"
Isaiah 46:1
"Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low. Their idols are on beasts, on livestock. Your loads are more burdensome than their reports.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the practices of the people are worthless. Indeed, a tree is cut down from the forest; it's the work of the hands of a craftsman with an ax.
Hosea 8:6
Because from Israel it was fashioned by craftsmen, it is not God; therefore Samaria's calf will be broken in pieces.
Habakkuk 2:18
"Where is the benefit in owning a carved image, that motivates its maker to carve it? It is only a cast image a teacher that lies because the engraver entrusts himself to his carving, crafting speechless idols.
Acts 19:26
You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.
1 Corinthians 10:19
Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?

General references

Exodus 20:4
"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.
Isaiah 40:19
To an idol? A craftsman makes the image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains.
Jeremiah 16:20
Can a person make a god for himself? They are not gods!

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