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Ammonites: Idols of Milcom 2 Kings 23:13

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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Armies: Often Destroyed by Brought Their Idols with Them 1 Chronicles 14:12

There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.

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Arpad: Idols of Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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Brass: Articles Made of Idols Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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Brass: Articles Made of Idols Revelation 9:20

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

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Carpentry: Making Idols Isaiah 41:7

The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

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Carpentry: Making Idols Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

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Carving: Idols Manufactured By Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

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Carving: Idols Manufactured By Isaiah 44:9–17

All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame. / Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? / Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame.

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Carving: Idols Manufactured By Isaiah 45:20

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

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Carving: Idols Manufactured By Habakkuk 2:18, 19

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. / Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

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Cedron: Idols Destroyed on the Banks of by Asa 1 Kings 15:13

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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Cedron: Idols Destroyed on the Banks of Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 29:16

So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

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Cedron: Idols Destroyed on the Banks of Josiah 2 Kings 23:6, 12

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people. / He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

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Children: Inhuman Practice of offering to Idols 2 Kings 17:31

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Children: Inhuman Practice of offering to Idols 2 Chronicles 28:3

Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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Children: Inhuman Practice of offering to Idols 2 Chronicles 33:6

He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

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Copper Brass: Made Into: Idols Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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Copper Brass: Made Into: Idols Revelation 9:20

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

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Dedication by Idolaters in Setting up Idols Daniel 3:2, 3

Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up. / So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.

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Defilement: Moral, Caused by Making and Serving Idols Ezekiel 20:17, 18

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness. / In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

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Defilement: Moral, Caused by Making and Serving Idols Ezekiel 22:3, 4

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself, / you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

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Defilement: Moral, Caused by Making and Serving Idols Ezekiel 23:7

She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

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Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Reproved for offering, to Idols Isaiah 57:5, 6

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? / Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

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Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Reproved for offering, to Idols Isaiah 65:11

But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

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Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Reproved for offering, to Idols Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

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Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Reproved for offering, to Idols Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.

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Drink offering: Vanity of offering, to Idols Deuteronomy 32:37, 38

He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, / which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Destruction of Its Idols Jeremiah 43:12, 13

I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed. / He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”

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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Destruction of Its Idols Jeremiah 46:25

The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.

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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Destruction of Its Idols Ezekiel 30:13

This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

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Egypt: The Country of: Idols of Ezekiel 20:7, 8

And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’ / But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

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Engraving in Making Idols Exodus 32:4

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

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Evil: Paul, in Refusing to Eat What had been offered to Idols 1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

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Famine: Destruction of Idols Zephaniah 2:11

The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.

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Flowers: Garlands of, Used in Worship of Idols Acts 14:13

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.

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Fools: Worship Idols Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

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Fools: Worship Idols Romans 1:22, 23

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

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Gold was Used for Idols Exodus 20:23

You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

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Gold was Used for Idols Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

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Gold was Used for Idols Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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Groves: Idols Were Worshipped In Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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High Places: Sacrifices and Incense offered to Idols Upon 2 Kings 12:3

Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

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High Places: Sacrifices and Incense offered to Idols Upon 2 Kings 16:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Exodus 23:24

You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Exodus 34:13

Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Numbers 33:52

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Deuteronomy 7:5, 25, 26

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire. / You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. / And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Deuteronomy 12:1–4

These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess. / Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. / Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Judges 2:2

and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

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Iconoclasm: Idols to be Destroyed Jeremiah 50:2

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

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Idolatry: Consists in Setting up Idols in the Heart Ezekiel 14:3, 4

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way? / Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Adrammelech 2 Kings 17:31

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Anammelech 2 Kings 17:31

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashima 2 Kings 17:30

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashtoreth Judges 2:13

for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Ashtoreth 1 Kings 11:33

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal Judges 2:11–13

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal Judges 6:25

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Berith Judges 8:33

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Berith Judges 9:4, 46

So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him. / On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Peor Numbers 25:1–3

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, / who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods. / So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baal-Zephon Exodus 14:2

“Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Baalzebub 2 Kings 1:2, 16

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” / And Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the LORD says: Is there really no God in Israel for you to inquire of His word? Is that why you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.”

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Bel Jeremiah 50:2

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Bel Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chemosh Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chemosh 1 Kings 11:33

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Chiun Amos 5:26

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Dagon Judges 16:23

Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Dagon 1 Samuel 5:1–3

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, / carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue. / When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Diana Acts 19:24, 27

It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen. / There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Huzzab Nahum 2:7

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Jupiter Acts 14:12

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Mercury Acts 14:12

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Merodach Jeremiah 50:2

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Molech or Milcom Leviticus 18:21

You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Molech or Milcom 1 Kings 11:5, 33

Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nebo Isaiah 46:1

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nergal 2 Kings 17:30

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nibhaz and Tartak 2 Kings 17:31

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Nisroch 2 Kings 19:37

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Queen of Heaven Jeremiah 44:17, 25

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster. / This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Remphan Acts 7:43

You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Rimmon 2 Kings 5:18

Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Succothbenoth 2 Kings 17:30

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Idolatry: Idols Mentioned in Scripture: Tammuz Ezekiel 8:14

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

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Idolatry: Making Idols for the Purpose of, Described and Ridiculed Isaiah 44:10–20

Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing? / Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are only human. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will all be brought to terror and shame. / The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

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Idolatry: Objects of Described as Dumb Idols Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

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Idolatry: Objects of Described as Idols of Abomination Ezekiel 16:36

This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

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Idolatry: Objects of Described as Senseless Idols Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

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Idolatry: Objects of Described as Senseless Idols Psalm 115:5, 7

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; / they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

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Idolatry: Other Customs of Prayers to Idols Judges 10:14

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

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Idolatry: Other Customs of Prayers to Idols Isaiah 44:17

From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

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Idolatry: Other Customs of Prayers to Idols Isaiah 45:20

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

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Idolatry: Other Customs of Prayers to Idols Isaiah 46:7

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

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Idolatry: Other Customs of Prayers to Idols Jonah 1:5

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

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Idolatry: They Who Practise: Ask Counsel of Their Idols Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

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Idolatry: They Who Practise: Look to Idols for Deliverance Isaiah 44:17

From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

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Idolatry: They Who Practise: Look to Idols for Deliverance Isaiah 45:20

Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

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