Deuteronomy 27:15

New American Bible - revised edition

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

Genesis 31:34

Meanwhile Rachel had taken the household images, put them inside the camel’s saddlebag, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through her whole tent without finding them,

Genesis 9:25

he said: “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

2 Kings 17:19

Even the people of Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord, their God, but followed the rites practiced by Israel.

2 Kings 23:13

The king defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of the Destroyer, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built in honor of Astarte, the Sidonian horror, of Chemosh, the Moabite horror, and of Milcom, the Ammonites’ abomination.

1 Chronicles 16:36

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make alongside of me gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Exodus 20:4

You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

Exodus 34:17

You shall not make for yourselves molten gods.

Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker stretches a line, and marks out a shape with a stylus. He shapes it with scraping tools, with a compass measures it off, Making it the copy of a man, human display, enthroned in a shrine.

Isaiah 44:17

The rest of it he makes into a god, an image to worship and adore. He prays to it and says, “Help me! You are my god!”

Isaiah 44:19

He does not think clearly; he lacks the wit and knowledge to say, “Half the wood I burned in the fire, on its embers I baked bread, I roasted meat and ate. Shall I turn the rest into an abomination? Shall I worship a block of wood?”

Jeremiah 11:3

and say to them: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be anyone who does not observe the words of this covenant,

Jeremiah 11:5

Thus I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, the one you have today. “Amen, Lord,” I answered.

Jeremiah 23:24

Can anyone hide in secret without my seeing them?—oracle of the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth?—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 28:6

and said: Amen! thus may the Lord do! May the Lord fulfill your words that you have prophesied, by bringing back the vessels of the house of the Lord and all the exiles from Babylon to this place!

Ezekiel 14:4

Therefore say to them: Thus says the Lord God: If any of the house of Israel who keep the memory of their idols in their hearts, setting the stumbling block of their sin before them, come to a prophet, I the Lord will answer in person because of their many idols,

Ezekiel 7:20

In their beautiful ornaments they took pride; out of them they made their abominable images, their detestable things. For this reason I will make them unclean.

Daniel 11:31

Armed forces shall rise at his command and defile the sanctuary stronghold, abolishing the daily sacrifice and setting up the desolating abomination.

Daniel 9:11

The curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, were poured out over us for our sins, because all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to hear your voice.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 26:1

Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the Lord, am your God.

Numbers 5:22

May this water, then, that brings a curse, enter your bowels to make your belly swell and your uterus fall!” And the woman shall say, “Amen, amen!”

Matthew 24:15

“When you see the desolating abomination spoken of through Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Matthew 6:13

and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one.

1 Corinthians 14:16

Otherwise, if you pronounce a blessing [with] the spirit, how shall one who holds the place of the uninstructed say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

Deuteronomy 27:14

The Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to all the Israelites:

Deuteronomy 29:17

There may be among you a man or woman, or a clan or tribe, whose heart is now turning away from the Lord, our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; there may be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood;

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God,

Deuteronomy 5:8

You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.

Judges 17:3

When he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, she said, “I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my own hand on behalf of my son to make an idol overlaid with silver.”

Judges 17:4

So when he restored the silver to his mother, she took two hundred pieces and gave them to the silversmith, who made of them an idol overlaid with silver. So it remained in the house of Micah.

1 Samuel 26:19

Please, now, let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may an offering please the Lord. But if it is the people who have done so, may they be cursed before the Lord. They have driven me away so that today I have no share in the Lord’s heritage, but am told: ‘Go serve other gods!’