Thematic Bible: Images
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Idolatry » Objects of » Images
And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that [were] among them,
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Their idols [are] silver and gold, [the] work of human hands.
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And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you [are] my god!"
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Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank the 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 the speechless idols, however you were led.
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Has a nation exchanged gods? And they [are] not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.
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For all the gods of the nations [are] idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
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Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods [to] whom they [are] making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble.
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Its land is filled [with] idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made [with] their fingers.
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But at that time [when you] did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods.
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For even if after all [there] are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as [there] are many gods and many lords,
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Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they [are] not gods!"
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Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship} the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,
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And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.
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And {they may no longer sacrifice} their sacrifices to the goat-idols after which they were prostituting. This is {a lasting statute} for them {throughout} their generations." '
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They sacrificed to the demons, not God, [to] gods whom they had not known, new [gods] [who] came from recent times; {their ancestors had not known them}.
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They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons,
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[No], but that [the things] which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons.
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And they worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who [is] like the beast, and who is able to make war with 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 Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal.
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The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it-- over its glory because it has departed from it.
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Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat [by] which he caused Israel to sin; [namely,] the calf-shaped idols of gold which [were in] Bethel and Dan.
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So now you yourselves are considering [that you are] strong before the kingdom of Yahweh [which is] in the hand the sons of David, since you yourselves are a great multitude and you have bull calves of gold that Jeroboam has made for idols.
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And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.
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And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them, "{You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough}; here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
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Images » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
Then Michal took the household god and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat's hair at its head and covered [it] with the clothes.
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Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.
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Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.
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The man Micah had for himself {a shrine}, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and {he appointed one of his sons} who became a priest for him.
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And the five men that went out to spy out the land ([that is], Laish) responded and said to their relatives, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? So then, consider what you must do."
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The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim.
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
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And I looked, and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you [had] made for yourselves an image of a calf [of] cast metal; you [had] turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded [for] you.
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Even when they made for themselves a molten idol of a calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you out from Egypt,' and committed great blasphemies.
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They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.
And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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Images » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"
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And [when] the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have become like men [and] have come down to us!"
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But they were expecting [that] he was going to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead. So [after] they had waited for a long [time] and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds [and] began saying [that] he was a god.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Ashtaroth
And again, the {Israelites} did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the {Ammonites} and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him.
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The high places which [were] east of Jerusalem, which [were] on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the {Ammonites}, the king defiled.
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because he has forsaken me, and they bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of [the] Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Molech, the god of the {Ammonites}. They did not walk in my ways to do right in my eyes, my ordinances, or my judgments, as [did] David his father.
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They abandoned Yahweh, and they served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
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And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If with all your heart you [are] turning to Yahweh, remove the foreign gods and Ashtoreths from your midst. Commit your hearts to Yahweh and serve him alone. Then he will deliver you from the hand of [the] Philistines."
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And they put his armor [in] the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor
So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and {Yahweh became angry} with Israel.
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Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did with [the case of] Baal Peor, for {each} man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst.
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They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to [the] dead.
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Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.
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[Is] not the sin of Peor {enough for us}, from which we have not cleansed ourselves today, and for which a plague came to the congregation of Yahweh,
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
" 'And you shall not give {any of} your offspring in order to sacrifice [them] to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I [am] Yahweh.
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And they built the high places of Baal that [are] in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to present as offerings their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I had not commanded them, and it had not come to my {mind} to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin."
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And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.
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And you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!'
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He defiled the Topheth which [is] in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, {to prevent} anyone causing his sons or his daughters to pass through the fire for Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
The high places which [were] east of Jerusalem, which [were] on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the {Ammonites}, the king defiled.
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For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures, even you yourselves will be taken, and Chemosh will go out into the exile, his priests and his officials together.
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Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever Yahweh our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.
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Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
The rulers of [the] Philistines had gathered to sacrifice 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 to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.
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And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana
For someone {named} Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen.
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And [when] the city secretary had quieted the crowd, he said, "Ephesian men, for who is there among men who does not know the Ephesian city is honorary temple keeper of the great Artemis and of [her] image fallen from heaven?
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And [when they] heard [this] and became full of rage, they began to shout, saying, "Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians!"
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