Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.

"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.

"You are to make the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen and with blue, purple, and scarlet material. You are to make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

With work like a jeweler engraves on a signet, you are to inscribe the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel, and you are to mount them in settings of gold filigree.

With work like a jeweler engraves on a signet, you are to inscribe the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel, and you are to mount them in settings of gold filigree.

Gideon crafted the booty into an ephod and enshrined it in his home town of Ophrah. Then all of Israel committed spiritual adultery with it there, and it became a snare for Gideon and his household.

This man Micah had his own shrine, had crafted his own ephod and some household idols, and had installed one of his sons as a priest.

This man Micah had his own shrine, had crafted his own ephod and some household idols, and had installed one of his sons as a priest.

Cedar carvings in the form of gourds and blooming flowers covered the entire interior of the Temple so that no stone could be seen.

Inside the inner sanctuary Solomon placed two cherubim crafted from olive wood, each ten cubits high.

Solomon also inlaid all the inner walls of the Temple both the inner and outer sanctuaries with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers.

So I entered, looked around, and there was every form of crawling thing, loathsome animals, and all kinds of idols from the house of Israel carved all around the wall.

"She became even more sexually immoral when she saw the images of the Chaldean men who had been carved in red on their walls.