New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Idolatry

• Forbidden Ex. 20:2, 3; Dt. 5:7
• Consists in
  • Bowing down to images Ex. 20:5; Dt. 5:9
  • Worshipping images Isa. 44:17; Dan. 3:5, 10, 15
  • Sacrificing to images Ps. 106:38; Acts 7:41
  • Worshipping other gods Dt. 30:17; Ps. 81:9
  • Swearing by other gods Ex. 23:13; Josh. 23:7
  • Walking after other gods Dt. 8:19
  • Speaking in the name of other gods Dt. 18:20
  • Looking to other gods Hos. 3:1
  • Serving other gods Dt. 7:4; Jer. 5:19
  • Fearing other gods 2 Ki. 17:35
  • Sacrificing to other gods Ex. 22:20
  • Worshipping the true God by an image, &c Ex. 32:4-6; Ps. 106:19, 20
  • Worshipping angels Col. 2:18
  • Worshipping the host of heaven Dt. 4:19, 17:3
  • Worshipping demons Mt. 4:9-10; Rev. 9:20
  • Worshipping dead men Ps. 106:28
  • Setting up idols in the heart Ezek. 14:3, 4
  • Covetousness Eph. 5:5; Col. 3:5
  • Sensuality Phil. 3:19
• Is changing the glory of God into an image Rom. 1:23; Acts 17:29
• Is changing the truth of God into a lie Rom. 1:25; Isa. 44:20
• Is a work of the flesh Gal. 5:19, 20
• Incompatible with the service of God Gen. 35:2, 3; Josh. 24:23; 1 Sam. 7:3; 1 Ki. 18:21; 2 Cor. 6:15, 16
• Described as
  • An abomination to God Dt. 7:25
  • Hateful to God Dt. 16:22; Jer. 44:4
  • Vain and foolish Ps. 115:4-8; Isa. 44:19; Jer. 10:3
  • Bloody Ezek. 23:39
  • Abominable 1 Pet. 4:3
  • Unprofitable Judg. 10:14; Isa. 46:7
  • Irrational Acts 17:29; Rom. 1:21-23
  • Defiling Ezek. 20:7, 36:18
• They who practice
  • Forget God Dt. 8:19; Jer. 18:15
  • Go astray from God Ezek. 44:10
  • Pollute the name of God Ezek. 20:39
  • Defile the sanctuary of God Ezek. 5:11
  • Are estranged from God Ezek. 14:5
  • Forsake God 2 Ki. 22:17; Jer. 16:11
  • Hate God 2 Chr. 19:2, 3
  • Provoke God Dt. 31:20; Isa. 65:3; Jer. 25:6
  • Are vain in their imaginations Rom. 1:21
  • Are ignorant and foolish Rom. 1:21, 22
  • Inflame themselves Isa. 57:5
  • Hold fast their deceit Jer. 8:5
  • Carried away by it 1 Cor. 12:2
  • Go after it in heart Ezek. 20:16
  • Are mad upon it Jer. 50:38
  • Boast of it Ps. 97:7
  • Have fellowship with devils 1 Cor. 10:20
  • Ask counsel of their idols Hos. 4:12
  • Look to idols for deliverance Isa. 44:17, 45:20
  • Swear by their idols Amos 8:14
• Objects of, numerous 1 Cor. 8:5
• Objects of described as
  • Strange gods Gen. 35:2, 4; Josh. 24:20
  • Other gods Judg. 2:12, 17; 1 Ki. 14:9
  • New gods Dt. 32:17; Judg. 5:8
  • Gods that cannot save Isa. 45:20
  • Gods that have not made the heavens Jer. 10:11
  • No gods Jer. 5:7; Gal. 4:8
  • Molten gods Ex. 34:17; Lev. 19:4
  • Molten images Dt. 27:15; Hab. 2:18
  • Graven images Isa. 45:20; Hos. 11:2
  • Senseless idols Dt. 4:28; Ps. 115:5, 7
  • Dumb idols Hab. 2:18; 1 Cor. 12:2
  • Dumb Stones Hab. 2:19
  • Stocks Jer. 3:9; Hos. 4:12
  • Abominations Isa. 44:19; Jer. 32:34
  • Images of abomination Ezek. 7:20
  • Idols of abomination Ezek. 16:36
  • Stumbling blocks Ezek. 14:3
  • Teachers of lies Hab. 2:18
  • Wind and confusion Isa. 41:29
  • Nothing Isa. 41:24; 1 Cor. 8:4
  • Helpless Jer. 10:5
  • Vanity Jer. 18:15
  • Vanities of the Gentiles Jer. 14:22
• Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed Isa. 44:10-20
• Obstinate sinners judicially given up to Dt. 4:28, 28:64; Hos. 4:17
• Warnings against Dt. 4:15-19
• Exhortations to turn from Ezek. 14:6, 20:7; Acts 14:15
• Renounced on conversion 1 Th. 1:9
• Led to abominable sins Rom. 1:26-32; Acts 15:20
• Saints should
  • Keep from Josh. 23:7; 1 Jn. 5:21
  • Flee from 1 Cor. 10:14
  • Not have anything connected with in their houses Dt. 7:26
  • Not partake of any thing connected with 1 Cor. 10:19, 20
  • Not have religious intercourse with those who practice Josh. 23:7; 1 Cor. 5:11
  • Not covenant with those who practice Ex. 34:12, 15; Dt. 7:2
  • Not intermarry with those who practice Ex. 34:16; Dt. 7:3
  • Testify against Acts 14:15, 19:26
  • Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death Dan. 3:18
• Saints preserved by God from 1 Ki. 19:18; Rom. 11:4
• Saints refuse to receive the worship of Acts 10:25, 26, 14:11-15
• Angels refuse to receive the worship of Rev. 22:8, 9
• Destruction of, promised Ezek. 36:25; Zech. 13:2
• Everything connected with, should be destroyed Ex. 34:13; Dt. 7:5; 2 Sam. 5:21; 2 Ki. 23:14
• Woe denounced against Hab. 2:19
• Curse denounced against Dt. 27:15
• Punishment of
  • Judicial death Dt. 17:2-5
  • Dreadful judgments which end in death Jer. 8:2, 16:1-11
  • Banishment Jer. 8:3; Hos. 8:5-8; Amos 5:26, 27
  • Exclusion from heaven 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Eph. 5:5; Rev. 22:15
  • Eternal torments Rev. 14:9-11, 21:8
• Exemplified
  • Israel Ex. 32:1; 2 Ki. 17:12
  • Philistines Judg. 16:23
  • Micah Judg. 17:4, 5
  • Jeroboam 1 Ki. 12:28
  • Maachah 1 Ki. 15:13
  • Ahab 1 Ki. 16:31
  • Jezebel 1 Ki. 18:19
  • Sennacherib 2 Ki. 19:37
  • Manasseh 2 Ki. 21:4-7
  • Amon 2 Ki. 21:21
  • Ahaz 2 Chr. 28:3
  • Judah Jer. 11:13
  • Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 3:1
  • Belshazzar Dan. 5:23
  • People of Lystra Acts 14:11, 12
  • Athenians Acts 17:16
  • Ephesians Acts 19:28
• Zeal against-Exemplified
  • Asa 1 Ki. 15:12
  • Josiah 2 Ki. 23:5
  • Jehoshaphat 2 Chr. 17:6
  • Israel 2 Chr. 31:1
  • Manasseh 2 Chr. 33:15
• All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses Ex. 20:4, 5
• All heathen nations given up to Ps. 96:5; Rom. 1:23, 25; 1 Cor. 12:2
• Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth in bodily shapes Acts 14:11
• Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local influence 1 Ki. 20:23; 2 Ki. 17:26
• Objects of
  • The heavenly bodies 2 Ki. 23:5; Acts 7:42
  • Angels Col. 2:18
  • Departed spirits 1 Sam. 28:14, 15
  • Earthly creatures Rom. 1:23
  • Images Dt. 29:17; Ps. 115:4; Isa. 44:17
• Temples built for Hos. 8:14
• Altars raised for 1 Ki. 18:26; Hos. 8:11
• Accompanied by feasts 2 Ki. 10:20; 1 Cor. 10:27, 28
• Objects of, worshipped
  • With sacrifices Num. 22:40; 2 Ki. 10:24
  • With libations Isa. 57:6; Jer. 19:13
  • With incense Jer. 48:35
  • With prayer 1 Ki. 18:26; Isa. 44:17
  • With singing and dancing Ex. 32:18, 19; 1 Ki. 18:26; 1 Cor. 10:7
  • By bowing to them 1 Ki. 19:18; 2 Ki. 5:18
  • By kissing them 1 Ki. 19:18; Hos. 13:2
  • By kissing the hand to them Job 31:26, 27
  • By cutting the flesh 1 Ki. 18:28
  • By burning children Dt. 12:31; 2 Chr. 33:6; Jer. 19:4, 5; Ezek. 16:21
  • In temples 2 Ki. 5:18
  • On high places Num. 22:41; Jer. 2:20
  • In groves Ex. 34:13
  • Under trees Isa. 57:5; Jer. 2:20
  • In private houses Judg. 17:4, 5
  • On the tops of houses 2 Ki. 23:12; Zeph. 1:5
  • In secret places Isa. 57:8
• Rites of, obscene and impure Ex. 32:25; Num. 25:1-3; 2 Ki. 17:9; Isa. 57:6, 8, 9; 1 Pet. 4:3
• Divination connected with 2 Chr. 33:6
• Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands Acts 14:13
• Idols, &c mentioned in scripture
  • Adrammelech 2 Ki. 17:31
  • Anammelech 2 Ki. 17:31
  • Ashima 2 Ki. 17:30
  • Ashtoreth Judg. 2:13; 1 Ki. 11:33
  • Baal Judg. 2:11-13, 6:25
  • Baal-berith Judg. 8:33, 9:4, 46
  • Baal-peor Num. 25:1-3
  • Baalzebub 2 Ki. 1:2, 16
  • Baal-zephon Ex. 14:2
  • Bel Jer. 50:2, 51:44
  • Chemosh Num. 21:29; 1 Ki. 11:33
  • Chiun Amos 5:26
  • Dagon Judg. 16:23; 1 Sam. 5:1-3
  • Diana Acts 19:24, 27
  • Huzzab Nah. 2:7
  • Jupiter Acts 14:12
  • Mercury Acts 14:12
  • Molech or Milcom Lev. 18:21; 1 Ki. 11:5, 33
  • Merodach Jer. 50:2
  • Nergal 2 Ki. 17:30
  • Nebo Isa. 46:1
  • Nibhaz and Tartak 2 Ki. 17:31
  • Nisroch 2 Ki. 19:37
  • Queen of heaven Jer. 44:17, 25
  • Remphan Acts 7:43
  • Rimmon 2 Ki. 5:18
  • Succothbenoth 2 Ki. 17:30
  • Tammuz Ezek. 8:14
• Objects of, carried in procession Isa. 46:7; Amos 5:26; Acts 7:43
• Early notice of, amongst God's professing people Gen. 31:19, 30, 35:1-4; Josh. 24:2
• The jews
  • Practiced, in Egypt Josh. 24:14; Ezek. 23:3, 19
  • Brought, out of Egypt with them Ezek. 23:8; Acts 7:39-41
  • Forbidden to practice Ex. 20:1-5, 23:24
  • Often mixed up, with God's worship Ex. 32:1-5; 1 Ki. 12:27, 28
  • Followed the Canaanites in Judg. 2:11-13; 1 Chr. 5:25
  • Followed the Moabites in Num. 25:1-3
  • Followed the Assyrians in Ezek. 16:28-30, 23:5-7
  • Followed the Syrians in Judg. 10:6
• Adopted by Solomon 1 Ki. 11:5-8
• Adopted by the wicked kings 1 Ki. 21:26; 2 Ki. 21:21; 2 Chr. 28:2-4, 33:3, 7
• Example of the kings encouraged Israel in 1 Ki. 12:30; 2 Ki. 21:11; 2 Chr. 33:9
• Great prevalence of, in Israel Isa. 2:8; Jer. 2:28; Ezek. 8:10
• A virtual forsaking of God Jer. 2:9-13
• The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy 2 Chr. 15:16, 34:7
• Captivity of Israel on account of 2 Ki. 17:6-18
• Captivity of Judah on account of 2 Ki. 17:19-23