Thematic Bible: Images
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You saw their loathsome idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
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Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them.
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But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods.
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Images » False gods and Goddesses » General references to
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood, and of stone.
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You know that you were of the nations, carried away and led by mute idols.
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Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them.
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This is because all the gods of the nations are useless idols while Jehovah created the heavens.
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Then the cities of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem will cry to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. But these gods will never rescue them in a time of distress.
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Their land is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
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However at that time, you did not know God. You were in bondage to things that are really not gods at all.
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There are those called gods in heaven or on earth. There are many gods and many lords.
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Can people make gods for themselves? They are not really gods!
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Images » Other objects of worship » Devils worshipped
The rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.
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As an alternative, Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the illegal worship sites and the goat and calf statues he had made as idols.
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The people must stop sacrificing to goat idols (demons) and chasing after them as though they were prostitutes. This is a long lasting law for the people and for future generations.
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They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
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But I say, that the things that the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
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Men worshiped the dragon that gave power to the beast. They worshiped the beast, saying: Who is like the beast? 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 broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal.
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The people who live in the city of Samaria will be afraid and will mourn the loss of the gold bull at Bethaven. They and the priests who serve the idol will weep over it. They will wail when it is stripped of its golden splendor.
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But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do. The gold calves were still worshiped in Bethel and in Dan.
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Now you plan to fight against the royal authority Jehovah gave to David's descendants. You have a huge army! You have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods.
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As an alternative, Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the illegal worship sites and the goat and calf statues he had made as idols.
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After asking for advice, the king made two golden calves. He said: You have been worshiping in Jerusalem long enough. Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.
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Images » Other objects of worship » Teraphim, images, household gods
Then Michal took some idols, laid them in the bed, put a goat-hair blanket at its head, and covered the idols with a garment.
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Rachel took the images. She put them in the camels' basket and was seated on them. Laban searched through the tent and did not find them.
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When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.
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Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.
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The five men who had gone to spy on the country around Laish said to their companions: Did you know that here in one of these houses there is a wooden idol covered with silver? There are also other idols and an ephod. Consider what you should do.
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For the children of Israel will live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.
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Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
After he worked on the gold with a tool, he made it into a statue of a calf. Then they said: Israel, this is your god, who brought you out of Egypt.
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I saw that you had indeed sinned against Jehovah your God. You made yourselves an idol, cast in the shape of a calf. You turned aside quickly from the way Jehovah had commanded you.
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Even when they made for themselves a bull out of metal, and said: 'This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry.'
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At Mount Horeb they made a statue of a calf. They worshiped an idol made of metal.
They made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
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Images » Other objects of worship » Men deified and worshipped
The people shouted: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
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Seeing what Paul did, the crowd lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian: The gods have come down to us, becoming like men.
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The people were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. 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
Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.
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The king made the illegal places of worship east of Jerusalem unclean. They were on the southern part of the Hill of Destruction. King Solomon of Israel built them for Astarte the disgusting goddess of the Sidonians. Also made unclean were references to Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Milcom the disgusting god of the Ammonites.
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I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has worshiped foreign gods. Astarte, the goddess of Sidon; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of Ammon. Solomon disobeyed me. He has done wrong! He has not obeyed my laws and commands as his father David did.
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They forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
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Samuel told the entire nation of Israel: If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts you must get rid of the foreign gods you have, including the statues of the goddess Astarte. You must dedicate your lives to Jehovah and serve him only. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.
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They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses the Asherahs and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Baal-peor
So Israel joined itself to Baal of Peor. Jehovah was angry against Israel.
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You saw how he killed everyone who worshiped the god Baal at Peor.
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They joined in worshiping the god Baal while they were at Peor. They ate what was sacrificed to the dead.
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. They became as detestable as that which they loved.
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Do you remember our sin at Peor, when Jehovah punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Was that not enough sin?
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Molech, moloch, or milcom, a God of the ammonites
Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah!
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In the valley of Ben Hinnom they built worship sites for Baal to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I did not ask them to do this. It never entered my heart (mind). I did not make Judah sin.'
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You have carried the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
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Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan. You made figures to worship them. I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
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Josiah also made Topheth in the valley of Ben Hinnom unclean so that people would never again sacrifice their sons or daughters by burning them to the god Molech.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh
The king made the illegal places of worship east of Jerusalem unclean. They were on the southern part of the Hill of Destruction. King Solomon of Israel built them for Astarte the disgusting goddess of the Sidonians. Also made unclean were references to Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Milcom the disgusting god of the Ammonites.
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Moab, you trusted in your strength and your wealth, but now even you will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile, along with his princes and priests.
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Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything Jehovah, our God, has taken for us.
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You Moabites are done for! Your god Chemosh deserted your people. They were captured, taken away by King Sihon the Amorite.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Dagon
The Philistine kings met together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said: Our god gave us victory over our enemy Samson!
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They brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.
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They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.
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false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Diana
A man named Demetrius, a silversmith made silver shrines of Diana. He brought a lot of business to the craftsmen.
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The city recorder quieted the crowd. He said: You men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
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When they heard this they were filled with anger. They shouted: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.
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