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
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
THEY WHO PRACTISE
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
Gods that cannot save Isa 45:20
Gods that have not made the heavens Jer 10:11
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
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
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
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
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
Baal Jud 2:11-13; 6:25
Baal-peor Nu 25:1-3
Baalzebub 2Ki 1:2,16
Baal-zephon Ex 14:2
Chiun Am 5:26
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