40 Bible Verses about statues
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Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am Jehovah your God!
I will remove your graven images and your sacred pillars from you. You will no longer worship the work of your hands.
He had power to give breath to the image of the beast and to make that image of the beast speak. He caused many to be killed, those who would not worship the image of the beast.
These are the commands, decrees and laws Jehovah your God commanded me to teach you. Obey them after you enter the land and take possession of it.
You are to obey and do forever the law he put in writing for you. You are to have no other gods.
The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.
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.
Tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles with fire. Cut down the carved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.
You will serve gods that are the work of men's hands. Made of wood and stone. They cannot see, hear, eat or smell.
And what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments so righteous as the law I present to you this day?
The statue had a head of pure gold, chest and arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass.
Their idols are made of silver and gold. Human hands made them.
Obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. Obey his testimonies and statutes for he commanded you.
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
But the next morning they saw that Dagon had again fallen forward on the ground in front of Jehovah's Ark. Dagon's head and his two hands were cut off and were lying on the temple's threshold. The rest of Dagon's body was intact.
Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
The statutes of Jehovah are correct. They make the heart rejoice. The commandments of Jehovah are radiant. They make the eyes shine.
This is because Abraham did everything I told him to do.
Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of your statutes, and I shall observe it to the end.
Ezra devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of Jehovah. He taught its decrees and laws in Israel.
You watched while a stone was cut out without hands. It struck the statue upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
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.
Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
Then I gave them laws that are not good and commandments that do not bring life.
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them. But they were not gods! They were only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.
But God says to the wicked: How dare you quote my decrees and mouth my covenant!
They are like scarecrows in cucumber fields. They cannot speak. They must be carried, for they cannot walk! Do not fear them! For they can do no harm and they can do no good.
I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.
Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
You know that you were of the nations, carried away and led by mute idols.
As long as you live, you, your son, and your grandson must respect Jehovah your God. All of you must obey his laws and commandments I give you. Then you will live a long time.
The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.
