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IdolarityCommanded not to be an idol worshipper
You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves. (Exodus 20:23)
Idols are the work of people’s hands
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. (Psalm 115:4)
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. (Psalm 135:15)
God provides everything, even material used for idols
Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, And will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, or horsemen. (Hosea 1:8)
Then the Lord said to him: “Call his name Lo-ammi, For you are not My people, And I will not be your God.” (Hosea 1:13)
Greed equated with idolatrys
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)
God judges those who worship idols
Yet they increased their whoredoms; for they have committed whoredom with them, with all the idols of Babylon, the land of their nativity. And they increased their whoredoms, remembering the days of their youth, when they played the harlot in the land of Egypt. (Ezekiel 23:29-30)
But her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her earnings shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay desolate; for she gathered it from the earnings of a harlot, and they shall return to the earnings of a harlot. (Micah 1:7)
Example of God’s people destroying idols, then Lord blessing
You will also defile the overlaying of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away like a woman’s unclean thing; and you will say to them, “Get away!”; Then He will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread from the earth; and it will be fat and plenteous. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures. (Isaiah 30:22-23)
Example of idolatry cloaked in religion
And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, about which you cursed and also spoke of it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be you of the Lord, my son!” So he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son, to make a carved image and a molded image. Now therefore I will give it back to you.” (Judges 17:2-4)