Thematic Bible: Images
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » Objects of » Images
You saw their detestable images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.
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made by human hands.
He bows down to it and worships;
He prays to it,
Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.
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(But they were not gods!
Yet My people have exchanged their
for useless idols.
but the Lord made the heavens.
Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods they have been burning incense to, but they certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
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they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
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But they are not gods.
Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.
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Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.
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They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons that they have prostituted themselves with. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.
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to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participate with demons!
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They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against him?”
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel
They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They worshiped the whole heavenly host and served Baal.
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over the calf
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.
It will certainly depart from them.
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—worshiping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.
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“And now you are saying you can assert yourselves against the Lord’s kingdom, which is in the hand of one of David’s sons. You are a vast number and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
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Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.
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So the king sought advice.
Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
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Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God
Images » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
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Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.
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When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
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This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.
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The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers, “Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image overlaid with silver in these houses? Now think about what you should do.”
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For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
He took the gold from their hands, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf.
Then they said, “Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”
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Then they said, “Israel, this is your God,
I saw how you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made a calf image for yourselves. You had quickly turned from the way the Lord had commanded for you.
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for themselves and said,
“This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,”
and they had committed terrible blasphemies,
and worshiped the cast metal image.
They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.
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Images » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”
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When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”
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They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth
Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.
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The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
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For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did.
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for they abandoned Him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”
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Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.
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Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.
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and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to Shame,
and became detestable,
like the thing they loved.
Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
“You are not to make any of your children pass through the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.
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They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!
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But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.
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and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!
He defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of Hinnom, so that no one could make his son or daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
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you will be captured also.
Chemosh
with his priests and officials.
Isn’t it true that you may possess whatever your god Chemosh drives out for you, and we may possess everything the Lord our God drives out before us?
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You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh!
He gave up his sons as refugees,
and his daughters into captivity
to Sihon the Amorite king.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
Now the Philistine leaders gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said:
Our god has handed over
our enemy Samson to us.
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our enemy Samson to us.
brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.
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Then they put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his skull in the temple of Dagon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana
For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided a great deal of business for the craftsmen.
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However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
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When they had heard this, they were filled with rage and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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