Forbidden  Ro 12:11; Heb 6:12.
Produce apathy  Pr 12:27; 26:15.
Akin to extravagance  Pr 18:9.
Accompanied by conceit  Pr 26:16.
Lead to
Poverty.  Pr 10:4; 20:13.
Want.  Pr 20:4; 24:34.
Hunger.  Pr 19:15; 20:13.
Bondage.  Pr 12:24.
Disappointment.  Pr 13:4; 21:25.
Ruin.  Pr 24:30,31; Ec 10:18.
Tattling and meddling.  1Ti 5:13.

Effects of, afford instruction to others  Pr 24:30-32.
Remonstrance against  Pr 6:6,9.
False excuses for  Pr 20:4; 22:13.
Illustrated  Pr 26:14; Mt 25:18,26.
Exemplified
Watchmen.  Isa 56:10.
Athenians.  Ac 17:21.
Thessalonians.  2Th 3:11.

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
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.  Jdj 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 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.  Jdj 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9.
New gods.  De 32:17; Jdj 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.  Jdj 16:23.
Micah.  Jdj 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.  Jdj 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, mentioned in Scripture
Adrammelech.  2Ki 17:31.
Anammelech.  2Ki 17:31.
Ashima.  2Ki 17:30.
Ashtoreth.  Jdj 2:13; 1Ki 11:33.
Baal.  Jdj 2:11-13; 6:25.
Baal-berith.  Jdj 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.  Jdj 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.  Jdj 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.  Jdj 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.

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