1Ki 12:28, Jer 10:5, Dan 3:1, 14, Hab 2:18, Act 19:26, 1Cor 8:4 | ESV | STEP | So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold . And he said to the people, You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough . Behold your gods , O Israel , who brought you up out of the land of Egypt .

1 Kings 12:28

28 So the king took counsel and ^amade two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. ^bBehold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

Jeremiah 10:5

5 Their idols ^{▼▼Hebrew They} are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,
and ^dthey cannot speak;
^ethey have to be carried,
for they cannot walk.
Do not be afraid of them,
^ffor they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.”

Daniel 3:1

Nebuchadnezzar’s Golden Image

1 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on ^hthe plain of Dura, in ⁱthe province of Babylon.

Daniel 3:14

14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?

Habakkuk 2:18

18 ^j“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, ^ka teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes ^lspeechless idols!

Acts 19:26

26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, ^msaying that ⁿgods made with hands are not gods.

1 Corinthians 8:4

4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ^o“an idol has no real existence,” and that ^p“there is no God but one.”