TOPICAL BIBLE
Idolatry
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Nehemiah 9:27So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.Nehemiah 9:28But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion.Nehemiah 9:29You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.Nehemiah 9:31But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.Nehemiah 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.Nehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.Nehemiah 9:34Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.Nehemiah 9:35For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.Nehemiah 9:36So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!Nehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.Job 31:26if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,Job 31:27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,Job 31:28this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.Psalm 16:4Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.Psalm 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,Psalm 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?Psalm 59:8But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.Psalm 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.Psalm 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.Psalm 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.Psalm 78:61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.Psalm 78:62He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.Psalm 78:63Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.Psalm 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.Psalm 79:6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,Psalm 81:9There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.Psalm 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.Psalm 97:7All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!Psalm 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.Psalm 106:34They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,Psalm 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.Psalm 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.Psalm 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.Psalm 106:38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.Psalm 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.Psalm 106:40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.Psalm 106:41He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.Psalm 106:42Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.Psalm 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.Psalm 115:5They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;Psalm 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.Psalm 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.Psalm 135:16They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;Psalm 135:17they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.Psalm 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.Isaiah 1:29Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.Isaiah 1:30For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.Isaiah 1:31The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.Isaiah 2:6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.Isaiah 2:7Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.Isaiah 2:9So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!Isaiah 2:10Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—Isaiah 2:13against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,Isaiah 2:14against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,Isaiah 2:15against every high tower, against every fortified wall,Isaiah 2:16against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.