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. — Jdj 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. — Jdj 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9.

New gods. — De 32:17; Jdj 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. — Jdj 16:23.

Micah. — Jdj 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 shapes — Ac 14:11.

Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence — 1Ki 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. — Jdj 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, mentioned in Scripture

Adrammelech. — 2Ki 17:31.

Anammelech. — 2Ki 17:31.

Ashima. — 2Ki 17:30.

Ashtoreth. — Jdj 2:13; 1Ki 11:33.

Baal. — Jdj 2:11-13; 6:25.

Baal-berith. — Jdj 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. — Jdj 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. — Jdj 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. — Jdj 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.