Bible Concordances
Idolatry

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Forbidden
  Exodus 20:2,3; Deuteronomy 5:7

• CONSISTS IN
  • Bowing down to images
    Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5:9
  • Worshipping images
    Isaiah 44:17; Daniel 3:5,10,15
  • Sacrificing to images
    Psalm 106:38; Acts 7:41
  • Worshipping other gods
    Deuteronomy 30:17; Psalm 81:9
  • Swearing by other gods
    Exodus 23:13; Joshua 23:7
  • Walking after other gods
    Deuteronomy 8:19
  • Speaking in the name of other gods
    Deuteronomy 18:20
  • Looking to other gods
    Hosea 3:1
  • Serving other gods
    Deuteronomy 7:4; Jeremiah 5:19
  • Fearing other gods
    2 Kings 17:35
  • Sacrificing to other gods
    Exodus 22:20
  • Worshipping the true God by an image, &c
    Exodus 32:4-6; Psalm 106:19,20
  • Worshipping angels
    Colossians 2:18
  • Worshipping the host of heaven
    Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:3
  • Worshipping demons
    Matthew 4:9-10; Revelation 9:20
  • Worshipping dead men
    Psalm 106:28
  • Setting up idols in the heart
    Ezekiel 14:3,4
  • Covetousness
    Ephesians 5:5; Colossians 3:5
  • Sensuality
    Philippians 3:19

• Is changing the glory of God into an image
  Romans 1:23; Acts 17:29

• Is changing the truth of God into a lie
  Romans 1:25; Isaiah 44:20

• Is a work of the flesh
  Galatians 5:19,20

• Incompatible with the service of God
  Genesis 35:2,3; Joshua 24:23; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Kings 18:21; 2 Corinthians 6:15,16

• DESCRIBED AS
  • An abomination to God
    Deuteronomy 7:25
  • Hateful to God
    Deuteronomy 16:22; Jeremiah 44:4
  • Vain and foolish
    Psalm 115:4-8; Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 10:3
  • Bloody
    Ezekiel 23:39
  • Abominable
    1 Peter 4:3
  • Unprofitable
    Judges 10:14; Isaiah 46:7
  • Irrational
    Acts 17:29; Romans 1:21-23
  • Defiling
    Ezekiel 20:7; 36:18

• THEY WHO PRACTISE
  • Forget God
    Deuteronomy 8:19; Jeremiah 18:15
  • Go astray from God
    Ezekiel 44:10
  • Pollute the name of God
    Ezekiel 20:39
  • Defile the sanctuary of God
    Ezekiel 5:11
  • Are estranged from God
    Ezekiel 14:5
  • Forsake God
    2 Kings 22:17; Jeremiah 16:11
  • Hate God
    2 Chronicles 19:2,3
  • Provoke God
    Deuteronomy 31:20; Isaiah 65:3; Jeremiah 25:6
  • Are vain in their imaginations
    Romans 1:21
  • Are ignorant and foolish
    Romans 1:21,22
  • Inflame themselves
    Isaiah 57:5
  • Hold fast their deceit
    Jeremiah 8:5
  • Carried away by it
    1 Corinthians 12:2
  • Go after it in heart
    Ezekiel 20:16
  • Are mad upon it
    Jeremiah 50:38
  • Boast of it
    Psalm 97:7
  • Have fellowship with devils
    Hosea 4:12
  • Ask counsel of their idols
    Hosea 4:12
  • Look to idols for deliverance
    Isaiah 44:17; 45:20
  • Swear by their idols
    Amos 8:14

• Objects of, numerous
  1 Corinthians 8:5

• OBJECTS OF DESCRIBED AS
  • Strange gods
    Genesis 35:2,4; Joshua 24:20
  • Other gods
    Judges 2:12,17; 1 Kings 14:9
  • New gods
    Deuteronomy 32:17; Judges 5:8
  • Gods that cannot save
    Isaiah 45:20
  • Gods that have not made the heavens
    Jeremiah 10:11
  • No gods
    Jeremiah 5:7; Galatians 4:8
  • Molten gods
    Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 19:4
  • Molten images
    Deuteronomy 27:15; Habakkuk 2:18
  • Graven images
    Isaiah 45:20; Hosea 11:2
  • Senseless idols
    Deuteronomy 4:28; Psalm 115:5,7
  • Dumb idols
    Habakkuk 2:18
  • Dumb Stones
    Habakkuk 2:19
  • Stocks
    Jeremiah 3:9; Hosea 4:12
  • Abominations
    Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 32:34
  • Images of abomination
    Ezekiel 7:20
  • Idols of abomination
    Ezekiel 16:36
  • Stumbling blocks
    Ezekiel 14:3
  • Teachers of lies
    Habakkuk 2:18
  • Wind and confusion
    Isaiah 41:29
  • Nothing
    Isaiah 41:24; 1 Corinthians 8:4
  • Helpless
    Jeremiah 10:5
  • Vanity
    Jeremiah 18:15
  • Vanities of the Gentiles
    Jeremiah 14:22

• Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed
  Isaiah 44:10-20

• Obstinate sinners judicially given up to
  Deuteronomy 4:28; 28:64; Hosea 4:17

• Warnings against
  Deuteronomy 4:15-19

• Exhortations to turn from
  Ezekiel 14:6; 20:7; Acts 14:15

• Renounced on conversion
  1 Thessalonians 1:9

• Led to abominable sins
  Romans 1:26-32; Acts 15:20

• SAINTS SHOULD
  • Keep from
    Joshua 23:7; 1 John 5:21
  • Flee from
    1 Corinthians 10:14
  • Not have anything connected with in their houses
    Deuteronomy 7:26
  • Not partake of any thing connected with
    1 Corinthians 10:19,20
  • Not have religious intercourse with those who practise
    Joshua 23:7; 1 Corinthians 5:11
  • Not covenant with those who practise
    Exodus 34:12,15; Deuteronomy 7:2
  • Not intermarry with those who practise
    Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3
  • Testify against
    Acts 14:15; 19:26
  • Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death
    Daniel 3:18

• Saints preserved by God from
  1 Kings 19:18; Romans 11:4

• Saints refuse to receive the worship of
  Acts 10:25,26; 14:11-15

• Angels refuse to receive the worship of
  Revelation 22:8,9

• Destruction of, promised
  Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 13:2

• Everything connected with, should be destroyed
  Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Samuel 5:21; 2 Kings 23:14

• Woe denounced against
  Habakkuk 2:19

• Curse denounced against
  Deuteronomy 27:15

• PUNISHMENT OF
  • Judicial death
    Deuteronomy 17:2-5
  • Dreadful judgments which end in death
    Jeremiah 8:2; 16:1-11
  • Banishment
    Jeremiah 8:3; Hosea 8:5-8; Amos 5:26,27
  • Exclusion from heaven
    1 Corinthians 6:9,10; Ephesians 5:5; Revelation 22:15
  • Eternal torments
    Revelation 14:9-11; 21:8

• Exemplified
  • Israel
    Exodus 32:1; 2 Kings 17:12
  • Philistines
    Judges 16:23
  • Micah
    Judges 17:4,5
  • Jeroboam
    1 Kings 12:28
  • Maachah
    1 Kings 15:13
  • Ahab
    1 Kings 16:31
  • Jezebel
    1 Kings 18:19
  • Sennacherib
    2 Kings 19:37
  • Manasseh
    2 Kings 21:4-7
  • Amon
    2 Kings 21:21
  • Ahaz
    2 Chronicles 28:3
  • Judah
    Jeremiah 11:13
  • Nebuchadnezzar
    Daniel 3:1
  • Belshazzar
    Daniel 5:23
  • People of Lystra
    Acts 14:11,12
  • Athenians
    Acts 17:16
  • Ephesians
    Acts 19:28

• Zeal against-Exemplified
  • Asa
    1 Kings 15:12
  • Josiah
    2 Kings 23:5
  • Jehoshaphat
    2 Chronicles 17:6
  • Israel
    2 Chronicles 31:1
  • Manasseh
    2 Chronicles 33:15

• All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses
  Exodus 20:4,5

• All heathen nations given up to
  Psalm 96:5; Romans 1:23,25; 1 Corinthians 12:2

• Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in Bodily shapes
  Acts 14:11

• Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local Influence
  1 Kings 20:23; 2 Kings 17:26

• OBJECTS OF
  • The heavenly bodies
    2 Kings 23:5; Acts 7:42
  • Angels
    Colossians 2:18
  • Departed spirits
    1 Samuel 28:14,15
  • Earthly creatures
    Romans 1:23
  • Images
    Deuteronomy 29:17; Psalm 115:4; Isaiah 44:17

• Temples built for
  Hosea 8:14

• Altars raised for
  1 Kings 18:26; Hosea 8:11

• Accompanied by feasts
  2 Kings 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:27,28

• OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED
  • With sacrifices
    Numbers 22:40; 2 Kings 10:24
  • With libations
    Isaiah 57:6; Jeremiah 19:13
  • With incense
    Jeremiah 48:35
  • With prayer
    1 Kings 18:26; Isaiah 44:17
  • With singing and dancing
    Exodus 32:18,19; 1 Kings 18:26; 1 Corinthians 10:7
  • By bowing to them
    1 Kings 19:18; 2 Kings 5:18
  • By kissing them
    1 Kings 19:18; Hosea 13:2
  • By kissing the hand to them
    Job 31:26,27
  • By cutting the flesh
    1 Kings 18:28
  • By burning children
    Deuteronomy 12:31; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Jeremiah 19:4,5; Ezekiel 16:21
  • In temples
    2 Kings 5:18
  • On high places
    Numbers 22:41; Jeremiah 2:20
  • In groves
    Exodus 34:13
  • Under trees
    Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
  • In private houses
    Judges 17:4,5
  • On the tops of houses
    2 Kings 23:12; Zephaniah 1:5
  • In secret places
    Isaiah 57:8

• Rites of, obscene and impure
  Exodus 32:25; Numbers 25:1-3; 2 Kings 17:9; Isaiah 57:6,8,9; 1 Peter 4:3

• Divination connected with
  2 Chronicles 33:6

• Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands
  Acts 14:13

• IDOLS, &c MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
  • Adrammelech
    2 Kings 17:31
  • Anammelech
    2 Kings 17:31
  • Ashima
    2 Kings 17:30
  • Ashtoreth
    Judges 2:13; 1 Kings 11:33
  • Baal
    Judges 2:11-13; 6:25
  • Baal-berith
    Judges 8:33; 9:4,46
  • Baal-peor
    Numbers 25:1-3
  • Baalzebub
    2 Kings 1:2,16
  • Baal-zephon
    Exodus 14:2
  • Bel
    Jeremiah 50:2; 51:44
  • Chemosh
    Numbers 21:29; 1 Kings 11:33
  • Chiun
    Amos 5:26
  • Dagon
    Judges 16:23; 1 Samuel 5:1-3
  • Diana
    Acts 19:24,27
  • Huzzab
    Nahum 2:7
  • Jupiter
    Acts 14:12
  • Mercury
    Acts 14:12
  • Molech or Milcom
    Leviticus 18:21; 1 Kings 11:5,33
  • Merodach
    Jeremiah 50:2
  • Nergal
    2 Kings 17:30
  • Nebo
    Isaiah 46:1
  • Nibhaz and Tartak
    2 Kings 17:31
  • Nisroch
    2 Kings 19:37
  • Queen of heaven
    Jeremiah 44:17,25
  • Remphan
    Acts 7:43
  • Rimmon
    2 Kings 5:18
  • Succothbenoth
    2 Kings 17:30
  • Tammuz
    Ezekiel 8:14

• Objects of, carried in procession
  Isaiah 46:7; Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43

• Early notice of, amongst God's professing people
  Genesis 31:19,30; 35:1-4; Joshua 24:2

• THE JEWS
  • Practised, in Egypt
    Joshua 24:14; Ezekiel 23:3,19
  • Brought, out of Egypt with them
    Ezekiel 23:8; Acts 7:39-41
  • Forbidden to practise
    Exodus 20:1-5; 23:24
  • Often mixed up, with God's worship
    Exodus 32:1-5; 1 Kings 12:27,28
  • Followed the Canaanites in
    Judges 2:11-13; 1 Chronicles 5:25
  • Followed the Moabites in
    Numbers 25:1-3
  • Followed the Assyrians in
    Ezekiel 16:28-30; 23:5-7
  • Followed the Syrians in
    Judges 10:6

• Adopted by Solomon
  1 Kings 11:5-8

• Adopted by the wicked kings
  1 Kings 21:26; 2 Kings 21:21; 2 Chronicles 28:2-4; 33:3,7

• Example of the kings encouraged Israel in
  1 Kings 12:30; 2 Kings 21:11; 2 Chronicles 33:9

• Great prevalence of, in Israel
  Isaiah 2:8; Jeremiah 2:28; Ezekiel 8:10

• A virtual forsaking of God
  Jeremiah 2:9-13

• The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy
  2 Chronicles 15:16; 34:7

• Captivity of Israel on account of
  2 Kings 17:6-18

• Captivity of Judah on account of
  2 Kings 17:19-23