Bible Verses About Idolatry

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

When God heardthis, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.

He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.

Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah commanded them,

But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,

And served their idols, Which became a snare unto them.

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people, And he abhorred his inheritance.

And he gave them into the hand of the nations; And they that hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.

They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not;

They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.

They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands.