'Idols' in the Bible
Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,
I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem's or Samaria's.
As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols."
Here is a message about Egypt: Look, the Lord rides on a swift-moving cloud and approaches Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him; the Egyptians lose their courage.
The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.
Look what's coming! A charioteer, a team of horses." When questioned, he replies, "Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!"
You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, "Get out!"
For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
I am the Lord! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.
Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images, 'You are our gods.'"
All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.
Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things I will seek vengeance.
When you cry out for help, let your idols help you! The wind blows them all away, a breeze carries them away. But the one who looks to me for help will inherit the land and will have access to my holy mountain."