Nave’s Topical Bible
Idolatry
266 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- WICKED PRACTICES OF
- Human sacrifices
Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 3:26-27; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 17:17-18; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Kings 23:10; 2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Psalms 106:37-38; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:4-7; Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 16:20-21; Ezekiel 20:26,31; Ezekiel 23:37,39; Micah 6:7
- Practices of, relating to the dead
- Licentiousness of
Exodus 32:6,25; Numbers 25:1-3; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 17:30; 2 Kings 23:7; Ezekiel 16:17; Ezekiel 23:1-44; Hosea 4:12-14; Amos 2:8; Micah 1:7; Romans 1:24,26-27; 1 Corinthians 10:7-8; 1 Peter 4:3-4; Revelation 2:14,20-22; Revelation 9:20-21; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 17:1-6
- Human sacrifices
- OTHER CUSTOMS OF
- Offered burnt offerings
- Libations
Isaiah 57:6; Isaiah 65:11; Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Jeremiah 44:17,19,25; Ezekiel 20:28
- Libations of wine
- Libations of blood
- Meat offerings
- Peace offerings
- Incense burned on altars
1 Kings 12:33; 2 Chronicles 30:14; 2 Chronicles 34:25; Isaiah 65:3; Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 11:12,17; Jeremiah 44:3; Jeremiah 48:35; Ezekiel 16:18; Ezekiel 23:41; Hosea 11:2
- Prayers to idols
Judges 10:14; Isaiah 44:17; Isaiah 45:20; Isaiah 46:7; Jonah 1:5
- Praise
- Singing and dancing
- Music
- Cutting the flesh
- Kissing
- Bowing
- Tithes and gifts
- ANNUAL FEASTS
1 Kings 12:32; Ezekiel 18:6,11-12,15; Ezekiel 22:9; Daniel 3:2-3
- OBJECTS OF
- Sun, moon, and stars
Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3,5; 2 Chronicles 33:3,5; Job 31:26-28; Jeremiah 7:17-20; Jeremiah 8:2; Ezekiel 8:15-16; Zephaniah 1:4-5; Acts 7:42
- Images of angels
- Animals
- Gods of Egypt
- Golden calf
- Brazen serpent
- Net and drag
- Pictures
- Pictures on walls
- Earrings
See SHRINE
- Sun, moon, and stars
- DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST
Genesis 35:2; Exodus 20:3-6,23; Exodus 23:13; Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 19:4; Leviticus 26:1,30; Deuteronomy 4:15-23,25-28; Deuteronomy 5:7-9; Deuteronomy 11:16-17,28; Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 16:21-22; Deuteronomy 27:15; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Deuteronomy 31:16-21,29; Deuteronomy 32:15-26; 1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 9:6-9; Job 31:26-28; Psalms 16:4; Psalms 44:20-21; Psalms 59:8; Psalms 79:6; Psalms 81:9; Psalms 97:7; Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 45:16; Joel 3:12; Jonah 2:8; Micah 5:15; Habakkuk 1:16; Acts 15:20,29; Acts 17:16; Romans 1:25; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; 1 Corinthians 10:7,14,20-22; 1 John 5:21; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15
See ICONOCLASM
- WARNINGS AGAINST, AND PUNISHMENTS OF
Deuteronomy 17:2-5; 2 Chronicles 28:23; Nehemiah 9:27-37; Psalms 78:58-64; Psalms 106:34-42; Isaiah 1:29-31; Isaiah 2:6-22; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 57:3-13; Isaiah 65:3-4; Jeremiah 1:15-16; Jeremiah 3:1-11; Jeremiah 5:1-17; Jeremiah 7; Jeremiah 8:1-2,19; Jeremiah 13:9-27; Jeremiah 16; Jeremiah 17:1-6; Jeremiah 18:13-15; Jeremiah 19; Jeremiah 22:9; Jeremiah 32:35; Jeremiah 44; Jeremiah 48:8; Ezekiel 6; Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 8:5-18; Ezekiel 9; Ezekiel 14:1-14; Ezekiel 16; Ezekiel 20; Ezekiel 22:4; Ezekiel 23; Ezekiel 44:10-12; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 2:2-5; Hosea 4:12-19; Hosea 5:1-3; Hosea 8:5-14; Hosea 9:10; Hosea 10; Hosea 11:2; Hosea 12:11-14; Hosea 13:1-4; Hosea 14:8; Amos 3:14; Amos 4:4-5; Amos 5:5; Micah 1:1-9; Micah 5:12-14; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 1; Malachi 2:11-13
- PROPHECIES RELATING TO
Exodus 12:12; Numbers 33:4; Isaiah 2:18,20; Isaiah 17:7-8; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 27:9; Isaiah 31:7; Jeremiah 10:11,15; Jeremiah 51:44,47,52; Ezekiel 43:7-9; Hosea 10:2; Micah 5:13; Zephaniah 2:11; Zechariah 13:2
- FOLLY OF
Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 32:37-38; Judges 6:31; Judges 10:14; 1 Samuel 5:3-4; 1 Samuel 12:21; 1 Kings 18:27; 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Kings 19:18; 2 Chronicles 25:15; 2 Chronicles 28:22-23; Psalms 96:5; Psalms 106:20; Psalms 115:4-5,8; Psalms 135:15-18; Isaiah 2:8; Isaiah 16:12; Isaiah 36:18; Isaiah 37:19; Isaiah 40:12-26; Isaiah 41:23-24,26-29; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 44:9-20; Isaiah 45:20; Isaiah 46:1-2,6-7; Isaiah 47:12-15; Isaiah 57:13; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 10:3-16; Jeremiah 11:12; Jeremiah 14:22; Jeremiah 16:19-20; Jeremiah 48:13; Jeremiah 51:17; Daniel 5:23; Hosea 8:5-6; Habakkuk 2:18-19; Zechariah 10:2; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:22-23,29; Romans 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 8:4-5; 1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Galatians 4:8; Revelation 9:20
Bible verses about “Idolatry”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 20:2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
- Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
- Leviticus 20:5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
- Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
- 2 Kings 3:26And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
- 2 Kings 3:27Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
- 2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
- 2 Kings 17:18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
- 2 Kings 21:6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
- 2 Kings 23:10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
- Psalms 106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
- Psalms 106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
- Isaiah 57:5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- Jeremiah 7:31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
- Jeremiah 19:4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
- Jeremiah 19:5They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
- Jeremiah 19:6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
- Jeremiah 19:7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 32:35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
- Ezekiel 16:20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
- Ezekiel 16:21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
- Ezekiel 20:26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 20:31For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be enquired of by you.
- Ezekiel 23:37That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
- Ezekiel 23:39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
- Micah 6:7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
- Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Exodus 32:6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
- Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- Numbers 25:2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
- Numbers 25:3And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.