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Exodus 20:4
“ You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. (niv)
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Exodus 34:17
“ Do not make any idols. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 14 16
Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say“ Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? (niv)
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Leviticus 26:1
“‘ Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 5:8
“ You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. (niv)
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Leviticus 19:4
“‘ Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God. (niv)
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Exodus 20:23
Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold. (niv)
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Jeremiah 28:6
He said,“ Amen! May the Lord do so! May the Lord fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the Lord’s house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon. (niv)
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Jeremiah 11:5
Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’— the land you possess today.” I answered,“ Amen, Lord.” (niv)
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Numbers 5:22
May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”“‘ Then the woman is to say,“ Amen. So be it.” (niv)
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Isaiah 44:19
No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,“ Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 28:16-19
You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. (niv)
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Isaiah 44:9-10
All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame.Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? (niv)
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Isaiah 44:17
From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says,“ Save me! You are my god!” (niv)
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Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ (niv)
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Hosea 13:2-3
Now they sin more and more; they make idols for themselves from their silver, cleverly fashioned images, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of these people,“ They offer human sacrifices! They kiss calf- idols!”Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears, like chaff swirling from a threshing floor, like smoke escaping through a window. (niv)
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1 Kings 11 5-1 Kings 11 7
He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. (niv)
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Exodus 32:1-4
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said,“ Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”Aaron answered them,“ Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said,“ These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (niv)
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Genesis 31:19
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods. (niv)
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Daniel 11:31
“ His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. (niv)
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Ezekiel 7:20
They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 33 2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. (niv)
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Genesis 9:25
he said,“ Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” (niv)
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Jeremiah 23:24
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.“ Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Matthew 24:15
“ So when you see standing in the holy place‘ the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel— let the reader understand— (niv)
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2 Kings 23 13
The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption— the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon. (niv)
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Psalms 44:20-21
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart? (niv)
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Deuteronomy 29:17
You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. (niv)
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Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing. (niv)
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1 Samuel 26 19
Now let my lord the king listen to his servant’s words. If the Lord has incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. If, however, people have done it, may they be cursed before the Lord! They have driven me today from my share in the Lord’s inheritance and have said,‘ Go, serve other gods.’ (niv)
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Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry. (niv)
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Jeremiah 11:3
Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:‘ Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— (niv)
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Deuteronomy 4:16-23
so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars— all the heavenly array— do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance.I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. (niv)
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Ezekiel 8:7-12
Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall.He said to me,“ Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.And he said to me,“ Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.He said to me,“ Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say,‘ The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’” (niv)
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Revelation 17:4-5
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.The name written on her forehead was a mystery: babylon the great the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth. (niv)
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2 Kings 17 19
and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced. (niv)