Exodus 20:4-5
4 a“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 bYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ca jealous God, dvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,Deuteronomy 4:16-25
16beware elest you act corruptly fby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, gthe likeness of male or female, 17the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see hthe sun and the moon and the stars, iall the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20But the Lord has taken you and jbrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, kto be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day. 21Furthermore, lthe Lord was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. 22For I must die in this land; mI must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of nthat good land. 23 oTake care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and pmake a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. 24For qthe Lord your God is a consuming fire, ra jealous God.25“When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, sif you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and tby doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
Deuteronomy 27:15
15 u“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ vAnd all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’Judges 2:11
Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 wAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.Judges 2:17
17Yet they did not listen to their judges, for xthey whored after other gods and bowed down to them. yThey soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.Judges 10:6
Further Disobedience and Oppression
6 zThe people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord aaand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, abthe gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they acforsook the Lord and did not serve him.1 Kings 11:7
7Then Solomon built a high place for adChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for aeMolech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.1 Kings 11:10
10and afhad commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.Psalms 97:7
7All worshipers of images are agput to shame,who make their boast in ahworthless idols;
aiworship him, all you gods!
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