Quotes about Idols
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Hosea 4:12
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
- Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
- Hosea 5:11
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- Hosea 8:4
Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.
- Hosea 10:6
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- Hosea 13:2
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- Hosea 14:8
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
- Amos 5:26
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Jonah 2:8
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- Micah 1:7
I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- Micah 5:13
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- Habakkuk 2:18