Quotes about Idolatry
From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
— Judges 8:27
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
— Judges 8:33
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
— Judges 10:10
But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
— Judges 10:13
Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
— Judges 10:14
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
— Judges 10:16
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
— Judges 16:23
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
— Judges 17:3
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
— Judges 17:4
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 18:18
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
— Judges 18:24
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
— Judges 18:31