Thematic Bible: Images
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Idolatry » Objects of » Images
And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
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And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god!"
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Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
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Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
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For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
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Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
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Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
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Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
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For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"--
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Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!"
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Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
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and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.
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So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
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They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
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They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
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No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?"
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel
And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
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The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests-- those who rejoiced over it and over its glory-- for it has departed from them.
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But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin--that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.
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"And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.
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and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.
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So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
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Images » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
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Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
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Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
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And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
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Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do."
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For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"
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And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
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Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,'and had committed great blasphemies,
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They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.
And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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Images » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
And the people were shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"
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And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!"
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They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORDand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.
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And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
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They abandoned the LORDand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the LORDand serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
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They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
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Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.
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Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
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Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
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Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
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They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
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You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god--your images that you made for yourselves,
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You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
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And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.
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Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
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Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
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Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
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And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana
For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.
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And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?
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When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
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