Genesis 31:19
31:19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
Genesis 31:30
31:30 Now I understand that
you have gone away
because you longed desperately
for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
Genesis 31:32
31:32 Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death!
In the presence of our relatives
identify whatever is yours and take it.”
(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
Genesis 35:2
35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you.
Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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!’
Jude 1:4-5
1:4 For certain men
have secretly slipped in among you
– men who long ago
were marked out
for the condemnation I am about to describe
– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil
and who deny our only Master
and Lord,
Jesus Christ.
1:5 Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude 1:24
Final Blessing
1:24 Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,
Ezekiel 8:12
8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”