Idolatry

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 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
- 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