Quotes About Idolatry

He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.í

Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ëThis is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,í and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Sorrows will multiply to those who chase other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood, or speak their names with my lips.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

They 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.

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ëWho is the LORD?í Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

For 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.