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Thematic Bible



Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not; Verse ConceptsAbsence Of FeelingDumbnessTypes Of FeetDumbFeeling Lost



and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so. Verse Conceptsethics, basis ofGod's WaysProstitutionRevelation, Responses ToDifferent Gods

and forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who are round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah, Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back: Verse ConceptsProvoking GodDifferent Gods

ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away; Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols? Verse ConceptsCreativitydistrustGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinSculptureUnreliabilityIdols Not ExistingTrusting IdolsMisteachingDumbnessUseless IdolsIdolatryDumbimageHinduismFutile Faith

Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen. Verse ConceptsAbominationsCreativityAmenArtMetalworkersSecrecyIdolsPagan PracticesAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, To GodAvoiding SecrecyFate Of Idolaterscursesimage

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols? Verse ConceptsCreativitydistrustGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinSculptureUnreliabilityIdols Not ExistingTrusting IdolsMisteachingDumbnessUseless IdolsIdolatryDumbimageHinduismFutile Faith

Lo, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you. Verse ConceptsIdols Not ExistingUseless Idols

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one; Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfMonotheismOne GodIdols Not ExistingUseless IdolsNon ExistenceNo Other Is GodFood For Other godsGod Is OneSacrificesEating Meatstatues

He chooseth new gods, Then war is at the gates! A shield is not seen -- and a spear Among forty thousand in Israel. Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

They sacrifice to demons -- no god! Gods they have not known -- New ones -- from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers! Verse ConceptsFalse Religiondemons, Kinds ofPagan PracticesUnusedWhat Is Not GodDemonsDemonic Influence

And none doth turn it back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, 'Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.' Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

'And they set their abominations in the house over which My name is called, so as to defile it; Verse ConceptsA Place For God's NameAbominations

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself. Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritIdolsAvoiding Idolatry

Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I am Jehovah your God. Verse ConceptsClaimsGod, Uniqueness OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsIdolsThe Lord Is GodIdolatryAvoiding Idolatry

For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together. Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfProstitutionUnforgivenessHarlotsGod Not ForgivingSwearing ByThose Who Committed Adulterywhores


And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem; Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume. Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistorySuperstitionGrowth Of EvilPeople Going AstrayIdolatryHow Not To WorshipOthers Summoning

Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god that saveth not. Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse ReligionemptinessGod, Uniqueness OfPredestinationReligionUnreliabilityWoodCarrying IdolsSurvivors Of The NationsIdolatryNature Of IdolatryPraying AmissThose Who Were IgnorantSolar Eclipse

My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God. Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWoodHarlotsCausing People To TurnIdol Worshipwhores

And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood. Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens. Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorLanguages

Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these! Verse ConceptsFaith, Origins Ofdrought, physicalHope, In GodRainSkyWaiting On GodGod Sending RainGod Controlling The Rain

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up, Verse ConceptsForgettingStumblingPaths Of RighteousnessOld ThingsIncense Offered AmissEvil WaysHighwaysPaths

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them; Verse ConceptsNakednessHuman Blood ShedIdol WorshipFate Of IdolatersPrivate Parts

What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols? Verse ConceptsCreativitydistrustGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinSculptureUnreliabilityIdols Not ExistingTrusting IdolsMisteachingDumbnessUseless IdolsIdolatryDumbimageHinduismFutile Faith

Woe to him who is saying to wood, 'Awake,' 'Stir up,' to a dumb stone, It a teacher! lo, it is overlaid -- gold and silver, And there is no spirit in its midst. Verse ConceptsGoldGuidance, Need For God'sIdolatry, Objections ToSleep, SpiritualStonesWoodOverlaid With GoldOverlaid With SilverHaving No BreathDumbnessDumbNot Able To Get UpWake Up!Woe To The Wickedguidanceawakeningbreath

As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them. Verse ConceptsFutilityFruitResponseUnreliabilityUprightnessDisdainImpotence Of IdolsObelisksCarrying IdolsDumbnessGood Or BadDumbChristmas Treestatues

As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity, Verse ConceptsTreasureAbominations, Idolatry IsBeauty Of Thingsjewelry

Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god that saveth not. Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse ReligionemptinessGod, Uniqueness OfPredestinationReligionUnreliabilityWoodCarrying IdolsSurvivors Of The NationsIdolatryNature Of IdolatryPraying AmissThose Who Were IgnorantSolar Eclipse

Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!' Verse ConceptsConfusionVanityIdols Not Existingimage

'Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them? Verse ConceptsNature Of The HeartIdol WorshipIn FrontHindering God's Work