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Idolatry
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 3:19Is 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; 36:18THEY 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 8:14Objects 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 14:22Making 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 3:18Saints 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; 21:8Exemplified
- 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 19:28Zeal against-Exemplified
- Asa
- 1Ki 15:12- Josiah
- 2Ki 23:5- Jehoshaphat
- 2Ch 17:6- Israel
- 2Ch 31:1- Manasseh
- 2Ch 33:15All 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 44:17Temples 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 57:8Rites 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 8:14Objects 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 10:6Adopted 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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