Bible Verses of Idols

The Lord will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands.

Zephaniah 2:11

those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him.”

Zephaniah 1:6

those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the Lord and who also swear by Molek,

Zephaniah 1:5

“I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place, the very names of the idolatrous priests—

Zephaniah 1:4

“I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.” “When I destroy all mankind on the face of the earth,” declares the Lord,

Zephaniah 1:3

“On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Zechariah 13:2

The idols speak deceitfully, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

Zechariah 10:2

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

Romans 1:25

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

Romans 1:23

Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Revelation 9:21

The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

Revelation 9:20

Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Psalms 135:18

They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.

Psalms 135:17

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

Psalms 135:16

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.

Psalms 135:15

Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Psalms 115:8

They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

Psalms 115:7

They have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell.

Psalms 115:6

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

Psalms 115:5

But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.

Psalms 115:4

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

Psalms 115:3

Why do the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Psalms 115:2

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

Psalms 106:38

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods.

Psalms 106:37

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalms 106:36

They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

Psalms 106:28

They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

Psalms 106:20

At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

Psalms 106:19

All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols— worship him, all you gods!

Psalms 97:7

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

Psalms 96:5

You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.

Psalms 81:9

They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

Psalms 78:58

I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.

Psalms 31:6

Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips.

Psalms 16:4

who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

Numbers 25:2

All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

Micah 1:7

Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god.

Malachi 2:11

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.

Leviticus 26:30

“‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

“‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4

“‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:21

They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves. This is to be a lasting ordinance for them and for the generations to come.`

Leviticus 17:7

They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

Judges 18:31

There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land.

Judges 18:30

He replied, “You took the gods I made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you ask, ‘What`s the matter with you?`”

Judges 18:24

When the five men went into Micah`s house and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:18

The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods while the priest and the six hundred armed men stood at the entrance of the gate.

Judges 18:17

Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod, some household gods and an image overlaid with silver? Now you know what to do.”

Judges 18:14

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest.

Judges 17:5

So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah`s house.

Judges 17:4

Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.

Judges 16:27

While they were in high spirits, they shouted, “Bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars,

Judges 16:25

When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.”

Judges 16:24

Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”

Judges 16:23

They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers.

Judges 9:4

and did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.

Judges 8:34

No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god

Judges 8:33

Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 8:27

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God`s love for them.

Jonah 2:8

“But days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

Jeremiah 51:52

For the time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon; her whole land will be disgraced and her slain will all lie fallen within her.

Jeremiah 51:47

I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:44

They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

Jeremiah 51:18

“Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51:17

A drought on her waters! They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.

Jeremiah 50:38

“Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.`

Jeremiah 50:2

And the answer will be: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.`”

Jeremiah 22:9

The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.`”

Jeremiah 19:13

They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.

Jeremiah 19:5

For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

Jeremiah 19:4

Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.

Jeremiah 18:15

They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

Jeremiah 10:15

Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:14

“Tell them this: ‘These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.`”

Jeremiah 10:11

Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple— all made by skilled workers.

Jeremiah 10:9

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Jeremiah 10:8

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”

Jeremiah 10:5

They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.

Jeremiah 10:4

For the practices of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.

Jeremiah 10:3

This is what the Lord says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though the nations are terrified by them.

Jeremiah 10:2

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

Jeremiah 9:14

Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

Jeremiah 8:19

Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.

Jeremiah 2:28

They say to wood, ‘You are my father,` and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.` They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!`

Jeremiah 2:27

Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It`s no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.`

Jeremiah 2:25

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

Jeremiah 2:11

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?` Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

Jeremiah 2:8

This is what the Lord says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:5

When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”

Isaiah 57:13

You went to Molek with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!

Isaiah 57:9

Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.

Isaiah 57:8

You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.

Isaiah 57:7

The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; indeed, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In view of all this, should I relent?

Isaiah 57:6

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.

Isaiah 46:7

Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.

Isaiah 46:6

They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.

Isaiah 46:2

Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.

Isaiah 46:1

All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.

Isaiah 45:16

But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable.

Isaiah 41:24

The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.

Isaiah 41:7