Exodus 20:4
20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
Leviticus 26:1
Exhortation to Obedience
26:1 “‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 5:8
5:8 You must not make for yourself an image
of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Deuteronomy 27:15
27:15 ‘Cursed is the one
who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent
to the
Lord, the work of the craftsman
– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Isaiah 37:18-19
37:18 It is true,
Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations
and their lands.
37:19 They have burned the gods of the nations,
for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
Isaiah 41:29
41:29 Look, all of them are nothing,
their accomplishments are nonexistent;
their metal images lack any real substance.
Isaiah 42:17
42:17 Those who trust in idols
will turn back and be utterly humiliated,
those who say to metal images, ‘You are our gods.’”
Isaiah 44:9-11
44:9 All who form idols are nothing;
the things in which they delight are worthless.
Their witnesses cannot see;
they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
44:10 Who forms a god and casts an idol
that will prove worthless?
44:11 Look, all his associates will be put to shame;
the craftsmen are mere humans.
Let them all assemble and take their stand!
They will panic and be put to shame.
Jeremiah 10:14
10:14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made.
For the image he forges is merely a sham.
There is no breath in any of those idols.
Revelation 14:8-10
14:8 A second angel followed the first, declaring: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city! She made all the nations drink of the wine of her immoral passion.”
14:9 A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and takes the mark on his forehead or his hand,
14:10 that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.