Thematic Bible: Images
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Idolatry » Objects of » Images
You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
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Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.
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With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying, 'Rescue me, for you are my god!'
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Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
As they drank wine, they 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 often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.
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Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
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For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the Lord made the heavens.
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Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means be able to save them when disaster strikes them.
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Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
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Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
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If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
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Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all."
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Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
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Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.
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So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.
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They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
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No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
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they worshiped the dragon because he had given ruling authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast too, saying: "Who is like the beast?" and "Who is able to make 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 commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.
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The inhabitants of Samaria will lament over the calf idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail over it, because its splendor will be taken from them into exile.
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However, Jehu did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had encouraged Israel to commit; the golden calves remained in Bethel and Dan.
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Now you are declaring that you will resist the Lord's rule through the Davidic dynasty. You have a huge army, and bring with you the gold calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
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Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.
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After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods 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 a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat's hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.
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(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
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While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
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Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.
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The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do."
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For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
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When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
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even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, 'This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,' or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.
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They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.
At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought 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 crowd began to shout, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"
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So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
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But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen 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
The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtars, as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.
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The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
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I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon's father David did.
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They abandoned the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.
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Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."
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They placed Saul's armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor
When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel.
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You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.
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They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
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When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame -- they became as detestable as what they loved.
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The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!
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They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.'
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You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,
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But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.'
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The king ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
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"Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches. So you too will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile along with his priests and his officials.
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You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.
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Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, "Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us."
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The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.
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They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and hung 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 a great deal of business to the craftsmen.
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After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?
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When they heard this they became enraged and began to shout, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
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