22 occurrences

'Graven' in the Bible

so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Verse ConceptsLike CreaturesAvoiding IdolatryRegulations For Men And WomenAncestral Worshipimage

So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.

Verse ConceptsForgetting GodAvoiding Idolatry

But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsCoveting, prohibition ofCalf worshipGoldMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinWarningAbhorAbominations, To GodAbominations, PracticesWorldly SnaresBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning Idolsimage

He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you.”

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenMetalworkersSkill

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

Verse ConceptsFive People

Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

When these went into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsCarvingWhat Do You Do?

The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.

Verse ConceptsRobbing Gods

The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

Verse ConceptsThe House Of God At ShilohThe Temple At Shiloh

For they provoked Him with their high placesAnd aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Verse ConceptsAbhorGod, Suffering OfGod, Zeal OfGod, JealousGod Opposes Idolatry

Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,Who boast themselves of idols;Worship Him, all you gods.

Verse ConceptsFate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryWorship God!

“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols,Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Verse ConceptsGod Is Truthful

And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

Verse ConceptsGoldMenstruationOverlaid With SilverAbandoning IdolsUnclean Things

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,Before they took place I proclaimed them to you,So that you would not say, ‘My idol has done them,And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

Verse ConceptsSculptureWoodGod Speaking Of OldGod Opposes IdolatryEverything Happening For A Reasonimage

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

Bible Theasaurus

Engrave (12 instances)
Engraved (72 instances)
Graven (63 instances)
Inscribe (11 instances)
Inscribed (35 instances)
Scratch (1 instance)
Sculpted (2 instances)

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