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Idolatry

 

Idolatry

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

CONSISTS IN

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

THEY WHO PRACTISE

Objects of, numerous - 1Co 8:5

OBJECTS OF DESCRIBED AS

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

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

Exemplified

Zeal against-Exemplified

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

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

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

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

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

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