Quotes about Idolatry
But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- Hosea 11:2
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
- Hosea 13:1
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
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Hosea 14:3
You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
- Amos 5:26
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
I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
- Micah 5:14
Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
- Habakkuk 1:11
Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
- Habakkuk 2:19
“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
- Zephaniah 1:3
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
- Zephaniah 1:5
They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
- Acts 7:40