'Images' in the Bible
Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
will I not deal with Jerusalem and her idols as I have dealt with Samaria and her images?'"
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.
They have been ashamed, And they have even blushed -- all of them, Together gone in confusion have those carving images.
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.The images you carry are loaded,as a burden for the weary animal.
Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.
For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.