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You have seen their detestable practices, their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold that they had with them.
And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, "Save me, since you are my god."
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As they drank the wine, they praised gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.
Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned the heavens!
The towns of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they'll be no help at all to them in the time of their disaster.
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
For even if there are "gods" in heaven and on earth (as indeed there are many so-called "gods" and "lords"),
Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
The rest of the people who survived these plagues did not repent from their evil actions or stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.
Jeroboam had appointed his own priests to serve at the high places and to serve the satyrs and calves that he had made.
They are no longer to slaughter their sacrifices to the goat demons, with whom they have been committing prostitution. This will be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations.
They sacrificed to demons not to the real God gods whom they didn't know, new neighbors who had recently appeared, whom your ancestors never feared.
Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons.
They worshipped the dragon because it had given authority to the beast. They also worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight a war with it?"
Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calves of jeroboam, set up in dan and bethel
They abandoned all of the commands given by the LORD their God, crafted for themselves cast images of two calves, constructed an Asherah, worshipped all of the stars in heaven, and served Baal.
"The residents of Samaria will be terrified because of the cows of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over Beth-aven, along with the priests who will mourn its glory, because that glory has departed.
Even so, Jehu never abandoned the sins of Nebat's son Jeroboam, who caused Israel to sin, regarding the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan.
"So now you think you'll be able to withstand the LORD's kingdom as controlled by David's descendants, just because you have a large crown and have brought with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
Jeroboam had appointed his own priests to serve at the high places and to serve the satyrs and calves that he had made.
So the king sought some advice and then built two golden calves and announced, "It's too difficult for you to travel to Jerusalem. So here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
Images » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes.
Meanwhile, Rachel had taken the idols, placed them inside the saddle of her camel, and sat on them. Laban searched through the whole tent, but found nothing.
Meanwhile, Laban had been out shearing his sheep. While he was away, Rachel stole her father's personal idols.
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.
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the territory of Laish told their relatives, "Are you aware that in these houses there's an ephod, some household idols, a carved image, and a cast image? You know what you need to do."
Likewise, the people of Israel will dwell a long time without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillars, and with neither ephod nor teraphim.
Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
He took them from them and, using a tool, fashioned them into a molten calf. The people said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt."
Then I saw how you had really sinned against the LORD your God! You had made for yourselves a calf, a cast idol. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD your God had commanded.
Moreover, after they had cast a golden calf for themselves, they said, "This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!" and committed terrible blasphemies.
They fashioned a calf at Horeb and worshipped a carved image.
"At that time they even made a calf to be their idol, offered a sacrifice to it, and delighted in what they had made with their hands.
Images » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"
They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth » Ashtaroth or ashtoreth, a Goddess of the phoenicians
Later on, the Israelis again practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by serving the Baals, the stars, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the descendants of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. In doing so, they ignored the LORD and wouldn't serve him.
The king defiled the high places which faced Jerusalem on the south side of Corruption Mountain, which King Solomon of Israel had constructed for Ashtoreth, the Sidonian abomination, for Chemosh, the Moabite abomination, and for Milcom, the Ammonite abomination.
I'm doing this because they have abandoned me and worshipped that Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They haven't lived my way by doing what I consider to be right and observing my statutes and my ordinances, like his father David did.
Then Samuel told the whole house of Israel, "If you're returning to the LORD with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, direct your hearts back to the LORD, and serve him only. Then he will deliver you from the control of the Philistines."
They put Saul's weapons in the temple of Asherah and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth-shan.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor » Baal-peor, a God of the moabites
The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,
You saw with your own eyes what he did in Baal Peor. The LORD your God exterminated from among you every man who followed Baal of Peor.
For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.
Isn't the evil that happened at Peor enough for us, from which we have yet to be completely cleansed even to this point, and because of which a plague came upon the community of the LORD?
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
"You are not to present any of your children to Molech as a sacrifice. That way, you won't defile the name of your God."
They built the high places of Baal that are in the Hinnom Valley in order to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech something that I didn't command, nor did it ever enter my mind for them to require this utterly repugnant thing and lead Judah into sin."
And you carried the tent of your king and Saturn, your star god idols that you crafted for yourselves.
You even took along the tent of Moloch, the star of your god Rephan, and the images you made in order to worship them. So I will take you into exile as far as Babylon.'
He also defiled Topheth, which is located in the Ben-hinnom Valley, so that no one would force his son or daughter to pass through the fire in dedication to Molech.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
The king defiled the high places which faced Jerusalem on the south side of Corruption Mountain, which King Solomon of Israel had constructed for Ashtoreth, the Sidonian abomination, for Chemosh, the Moabite abomination, and for Milcom, the Ammonite abomination.
But, because you trust in your deeds and your riches, you will also be captured. Chemosh will go out into exile, along with his priests and officials.
Don't you control what your god Chemosh gives you? In the same way, we'll take control of whomever the LORD our God has driven out in front of us.
Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, you people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters have gone into captivity to Sihon, king of the Amorites.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon » Dagon, a God of the philistines
Some time later, the Philistine officials got together to present a magnificent sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to throw a party, because they were claiming, "Our god has given Samson into our control!"
Then the Philistines took the Ark of God, brought it to the temple of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon.
Then they put Saul's armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his skull to the wall of the temple of Dagon.
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana » Diana, a Goddess of the ephesians
By making silver shrines of Artemis, a silversmith named Demetrius provided a large income for skilled workers.
When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?
When they heard this, they became furious and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"