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, 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 . 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 . Defiling Eze 20:7; 36:18 - 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 i
n 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 . New gods De 32:17; Jud 5:8 . Gods that cannot save Isa 45:20 . Gods that have not made the heavens Jer 10:11 . No gods Jer 5:7; Ga 4:8 . Molten gods Ex 34:17; Le 19:4 . 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 . Stocks Jer 3:9; Ho 4:12 . 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 . Nothing Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Israel Ex 32:1; 2Ki 17:12 . 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, . Adrammelech 2Ki 17:31 . Anammelech 2Ki 17:31 . Ashima 2Ki 17:30 . Ashtoreth Jud 2:13; 1Ki 11:33 . Baal Jud 2:11-13; 6:25 . Baal-berith Jud 8:33; 9:4,46 . Baal-peor Nu 25:1-3 . Baalzebub 2Ki 1:2,16 . Baal-zephon Ex 14:2 . Bel Jer 50:2; 51:44 . Chemosh Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33 . Chiun Am 5:26 . Dagon Jud 16:23; 1Sa 5:1-3 . 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 t
he 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