Idolatry

Forbidden Ex 20:2,3; De 5:7

CONSISTS IN

• Bowing down to images Ex 20:5; De 5:9
• Worshipping images Isa 44:17; Da 3:5,10,15
• Sacrificing to images Ps 106:38; Ac 7:41
• Worshipping other gods De 30:17; Ps 81:9
• Swearing by other gods Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7
• Walking after other gods De 8:19
• Speaking in the name of other gods De 18:20
• Looking to other gods Ho 3:1
• Serving other gods De 7:4; Jer 5:19
• Fearing other gods 2Ki 17:35
• Sacrificing to other gods Ex 22:20
• Worshipping the true God by an image, &c Ex 32:4-6; Ps 106:19,20
• Worshipping angels Col 2:18
• Worshipping the host of heaven De 4:19; 17:3
• Worshipping demons Mt 4:9-10; Re 9:20
• Worshipping dead men Ps 106:28
• Setting up idols in the heart Eze 14:3,4
• Covetousness Eph 5:5; Col 3:5
• Sensuality Php 3:19

Is changing the glory of God into an image Ro 1:23; Ac 17:29

Is changing the truth of God into a lie Ro 1:25; Isa 44:20

Is a work of the flesh Ga 5:19,20

Incompatible with the service of God Ge 35:2,3; Jos 24:23; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 18:21; 2Co 6:15,16

DESCRIBED AS

• An abomination to God De 7:25
• Hateful to God De 16:22; Jer 44:4
• Vain and foolish Ps 115:4-8; Isa 44:19; Jer 10:3
• Bloody Eze 23:39
• Abominable 1Pe 4:3
• Unprofitable Jud 10:14; Isa 46:7
• Irrational Ac 17:29; Ro 1:21-23
• Defiling Eze 20:7; 36:18

THEY WHO PRACTISE

• Forget God De 8:19; Jer 18:15
• Go astray from God Eze 44:10
• Pollute the name of God Eze 20:39
• Defile the sanctuary of God Eze 5:11
• Are estranged from God Eze 14:5
• Forsake God 2Ki 22:17; Jer 16:11
• Hate God 2Ch 19:2,3
• Provoke God De 31:20; Isa 65:3; Jer 25:6
• Are vain in their imaginations Ro 1:21
• Are ignorant and foolish Ro 1:21,22
• Inflame themselves Isa 57:5
• Hold fast their deceit Jer 8:5
• Carried away by it 1Co 12:2
• Go after it in heart Eze 20:16
• Are mad upon it Jer 50:38
• Boast of it Ps 97:7
• Have fellowship with devils Ho 4:12
• Ask counsel of their idols Ho 4:12
• Look to idols for deliverance Isa 44:17; 45:20
• Swear by their idols Am 8:14

Objects of, numerous 1Co 8:5

OBJECTS OF DESCRIBED AS

• Strange gods Ge 35:2,4; Jos 24:20
• Other gods Jud 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9
• New gods De 32:17; Jud 5:8
• Gods that cannot save Isa 45:20
• Gods that have not made the heavens Jer 10:11
• No gods Jer 5:7; Ga 4:8
• Molten gods Ex 34:17; Le 19:4
• Molten images De 27:15; Hab 2:18
• Graven images Isa 45:20; Ho 11:2
• Senseless idols De 4:28; Ps 115:5,7
• Dumb idols Hab 2:18
• Dumb Stones Hab 2:19
• Stocks Jer 3:9; Ho 4:12
• Abominations Isa 44:19; Jer 32:34
• Images of abomination Eze 7:20
• Idols of abomination Eze 16:36
• Stumbling blocks Eze 14:3
• Teachers of lies Hab 2:18
• Wind and confusion Isa 41:29
• Nothing Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4
• Helpless Jer 10:5
• Vanity Jer 18:15
• Vanities of the Gentiles Jer 14:22

Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed Isa 44:10-20

Obstinate sinners judicially given up to De 4:28; 28:64; Ho 4:17

Warnings against De 4:15-19

Exhortations to turn from Eze 14:6; 20:7; Ac 14:15

Renounced on conversion 1Th 1:9

Led to abominable sins Ro 1:26-32; Ac 15:20

SAINTS SHOULD

• Keep from Jos 23:7; 1Jo 5:21
• Flee from 1Co 10:14
• Not have anything connected with in their houses De 7:26
• Not partake of any thing connected with 1Co 10:19,20
• Not have religious intercourse with those who practise Jos 23:7; 1Co 5:11
• Not covenant with those who practise Ex 34:12,15; De 7:2
• Not intermarry with those who practise Ex 34:16; De 7:3
• Testify against Ac 14:15; 19:26
• Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death Da 3:18

Saints preserved by God from 1Ki 19:18; Ro 11:4

Saints refuse to receive the worship of Ac 10:25,26; 14:11-15

Angels refuse to receive the worship of Re 22:8,9

Destruction of, promised Eze 36:25; Zec 13:2

Everything connected with, should be destroyed Ex 34:13; De 7:5; 2Sa 5:21; 2Ki 23:14

Woe denounced against Hab 2:19

Curse denounced against De 27:15

PUNISHMENT OF

• Judicial death De 17:2-5
• Dreadful judgments which end in death Jer 8:2; 16:1-11
• Banishment Jer 8:3; Ho 8:5-8; Am 5:26,27
• Exclusion from heaven 1Co 6:9,10; Eph 5:5; Re 22:15
• Eternal torments Re 14:9-11; 21:8

Exemplified

• Israel Ex 32:1; 2Ki 17:12
• Philistines Jud 16:23
• Micah Jud 17:4,5
• Jeroboam 1Ki 12:28
• Maachah 1Ki 15:13
• Ahab 1Ki 16:31
• Jezebel 1Ki 18:19
• Sennacherib 2Ki 19:37
• Manasseh 2Ki 21:4-7
• Amon 2Ki 21:21
• Ahaz 2Ch 28:3
• Judah Jer 11:13
• Nebuchadnezzar Da 3:1
• Belshazzar Da 5:23
• People of Lystra Ac 14:11,12
• Athenians Ac 17:16
• Ephesians Ac 19:28

Zeal against-Exemplified

• Asa 1Ki 15:12
• Josiah 2Ki 23:5
• Jehoshaphat 2Ch 17:6
• Israel 2Ch 31:1
• Manasseh 2Ch 33:15

All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses Ex 20:4,5

All heathen nations given up to Ps 96:5; Ro 1:23,25; 1Co 12:2

Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapesAc 14:11

Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence1Ki 20:23; 2Ki 17:26

OBJECTS OF

• The heavenly bodies 2Ki 23:5; Ac 7:42
• Angels Col 2:18
• Departed spirits 1Sa 28:14,15
• Earthly creatures Ro 1:23
• Images De 29:17; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:17

Temples built for Ho 8:14

Altars raised for 1Ki 18:26; Ho 8:11

Accompanied by feasts 2Ki 10:20; 1Co 10:27,28

OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED

• With sacrifices Nu 22:40; 2Ki 10:24
• With libations Isa 57:6; Jer 19:13
• With incense Jer 48:35
• With prayer 1Ki 18:26; Isa 44:17
• With singing and dancing Ex 32:18,19; 1Ki 18:26; 1Co 10:7
• By bowing to them 1Ki 19:18; 2Ki 5:18
• By kissing them 1Ki 19:18; Ho 13:2
• By kissing the hand to them Job 31:26,27
• By cutting the flesh 1Ki 18:28
• By burning children De 12:31; 2Ch 33:6; Jer 19:4,5; Eze 16:21
• In temples 2Ki 5:18
• On high places Nu 22:41; Jer 2:20
• In groves Ex 34:13
• Under trees Isa 57:5; Jer 2:20
• In private houses Jud 17:4,5
• On the tops of houses 2Ki 23:12; Zep 1:5
• In secret places Isa 57:8

Rites of, obscene and impure Ex 32:25; Nu 25:1-3; 2Ki 17:9; Isa 57:6,8,9; 1Pe 4:3

Divination connected with #2Ch 33:6|

Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands #Ac 14:13|

IDOLS, &c MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Adrammelech #2Ki 17:31|
• Anammelech #2Ki 17:31|
• Ashima #2Ki 17:30|
• Ashtoreth #Jud 2:13; 1Ki 11:33|
• Baal #Jud 2:11-13; 6:25|
• Baal-berith #Jud 8:33; 9:4,46|
• Baal-peor #Nu 25:1-3|
• Baalzebub #2Ki 1:2,16|
• Baal-zephon #Ex 14:2|
• Bel #Jer 50:2; 51:44|
• Chemosh #Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33|
• Chiun #Am 5:26|
• Dagon #Jud 16:23; 1Sa 5:1-3|
• Diana #Ac 19:24,27|
• Huzzab #Na 2:7|
• Jupiter #Ac 14:12|
• Mercury #Ac 14:12|
• Molech or Milcom #Le 18:21; 1Ki 11:5,33|
• Merodach #Jer 50:2|
• Nergal #2Ki 17:30|
• Nebo #Isa 46:1|
• Nibhaz and Tartak #2Ki 17:31|
• Nisroch 2Ki 19:37
• Queen of heaven #Jer 44:17,25|
• Remphan #Ac 7:43|
• Rimmon 2Ki 5:18
• Succothbenoth #2Ki 17:30|
• Tammuz #Eze 8:14|

Objects of, carried in procession #Isa 46:7; Am 5:26; Ac 7:43|

Early notice of, amongst God's professing people #Ge 31:19,30; 35:1-4; Jos 24:2|

THE JEWS

• Practised, in Egypt #Jos 24:14; Eze 23:3,19|
• Brought, out of Egypt with them #Eze 23:8; Ac 7:39-41|
• Forbidden to practise #Ex 20:1-5; 23:24|
• Often mixed up, with God's worship #Ex 32:1-5; 1Ki 12:27,28|
• Followed the Canaanites in #Jud 2:11-13; 1Ch 5:25|
• Followed the Moabites in #Nu 25:1-3|
• Followed the Assyrians in #Eze 16:28-30; 23:5-7|
• Followed the Syrians in #Jud 10:6|

Adopted by Solomon #1Ki 11:5-8|

Adopted by the wicked kings #1Ki 21:26; 2Ki 21:21; 2Ch 28:2-4; 33:3,7|

Example of the kings encouraged Israel in #1Ki 12:30; 2Ki 21:11; 2Ch 33:9|

Great prevalence of, in Israel #Isa 2:8; Jer 2:28; Eze 8:10|

A virtual forsaking of God #Jer 2:9-13|

The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy #2Ch 15:16; 34:7|

Captivity of Israel on account of #2Ki 17:6-18|

Captivity of Judah on account of #2Ki 17:19-23|