Concordance

“Idol” in the Bible

194 verses contain “idol” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:32 …it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the…
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found…
Genesis 31:35 Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26:1 “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD…
Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
Numbers 33:52 you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:23 … of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden…
Deuteronomy 4:25 …the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to…
Deuteronomy 5:8 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Deuteronomy 7:5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Deuteronomy 12:3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
Deuteronomy 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the…
Deuteronomy 29:17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 32:21 …which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without…
Judges 3:19 But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants…
Judges 3:26 Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
Judges 17:3 …D for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to…
Judges 17:4 …silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of…
Judges 17:5 Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
Judges 18:14 … has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should…
Judges 18:17 … inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed…
Judges 18:18 When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Judges 18:20 So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
Judges 18:27 After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the…
Judges 18:30 The Danites set up idols for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of…
1 Samuel 15:23 … sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as…
1 Samuel 19:13 Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
1 Samuel 19:16 And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
1 Samuel 31:9 …he Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their…
2 Samuel 5:21 There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 16:13 … the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless…
1 Kings 16:26 … the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless…
1 Kings 21:26 He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
2 Kings 9:22 …ehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel…
2 Kings 11:18 …emple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest…
2 Kings 17:12 They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
2 Kings 17:15 …ll as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them…
2 Kings 17:16 …ents of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served…
2 Kings 17:41 So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
2 Kings 21:11 “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
2 Kings 21:21 He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
2 Kings 23:24 … removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry…
1 Chronicles 10:9 …the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their…
1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
2 Chronicles 11:15 And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
2 Chronicles 15:8 …ded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of…
2 Chronicles 23:17 So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
2 Chronicles 24:18 They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
2 Chronicles 33:15 He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them…
2 Chronicles 33:19 …tes where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the…
2 Chronicles 33:22 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
2 Chronicles 34:3 …Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast…
2 Chronicles 34:4 …were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had…
2 Chronicles 34:7 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…
Psalms 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
Psalms 31:6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
Psalms 78:58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
Psalms 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
Psalms 97:7 All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
Psalms 106:36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
Psalms 106:38 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.
Psalms 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalms 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Isaiah 2:18 and the idols will vanish completely.
Isaiah 2:20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
Isaiah 10:11 and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
Isaiah 19:1 …the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within…
Isaiah 19:3 …d I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and…
Isaiah 30:22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
Isaiah 31:7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
Isaiah 40:19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?
Isaiah 40:20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
Isaiah 42:17 But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
Isaiah 44:9 All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
Isaiah 44:10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
Isaiah 44:12 …mith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to…
Isaiah 44:15 …he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to…
Isaiah 45:16 They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
Isaiah 45:20 Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Isaiah 48:5 …it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained…
Isaiah 48:14 Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will…
Isaiah 57:13 When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will…
Isaiah 66:3 …ood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their…
Jeremiah 2:5 This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
Jeremiah 2:8 …st Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless…
Jeremiah 2:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
Jeremiah 4:1 “If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
Jeremiah 8:19 …nger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign…
Jeremiah 10:5 Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can…
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all…
Jeremiah 16:18 …have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their…
Jeremiah 16:19 …ill say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at…
Jeremiah 18:15 …My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on…
Jeremiah 50:2 …o shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in…
Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Jeremiah 51:52 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
Ezekiel 5:11 …ause you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare…
Ezekiel 6:4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
Ezekiel 6:5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 6:6 …so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted…
Ezekiel 6:9 …at turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their…
Ezekiel 6:13 …l know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy…
Ezekiel 7:20 …e and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for…
Ezekiel 8:3 …he entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was…
Ezekiel 8:5 …rth, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of…
Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 8:12 …el are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the…
Ezekiel 14:3 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?
Ezekiel 14:4 …this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the…
Ezekiel 14:5 so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:7 …igner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to…
Ezekiel 16:17 You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
Ezekiel 16:20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
Ezekiel 16:21 You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
Ezekiel 16:36 …r promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to…
Ezekiel 18:6 He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
Ezekiel 18:12 He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
Ezekiel 18:15 He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
Ezekiel 20:7 And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
Ezekiel 20:8 …bominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of…
Ezekiel 20:16 because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:24 For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Ezekiel 20:31 …n the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord…
Ezekiel 20:39 …f Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy…
Ezekiel 21:21 …ads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the…
Ezekiel 22:3 and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
Ezekiel 22:4 …ilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore…
Ezekiel 23:7 She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 23:30 have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:37 … is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their…
Ezekiel 23:39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
Ezekiel 23:49 They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”
Ezekiel 30:13 This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in…
Ezekiel 33:25 …ou eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the…
Ezekiel 36:18 So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

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