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
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
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
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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