Exodus 20:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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;

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

The king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

2 Kings 17:12

and served idols, although the Lord had told them: You must not do this.

2 Chronicles 33:7

An idol he had made he placed in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Psalm 97:7

All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things; all gods bow down before him.

Exodus 20:23

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

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for that man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”

Exodus 32:23

They said to me, ‘Make us a god to go before us; as for this man Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

Exodus 32:4

He received their offering, and fashioning it with a tool, made a molten calf. Then they cried out, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 32:8

They have quickly turned aside from the way I commanded them, making for themselves a molten calf and bowing down to it, sacrificing to it and crying out, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 34:17

You shall not make for yourselves molten gods.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back in utter shame who trust in idols; Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord, Lord is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols.

Isaiah 45:16

They are put to shame and disgrace, all of them; they go in disgrace who carve images.

Ezekiel 20:7

Then I said to them: Throw away, each of you, the detestable things that held your eyes; do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord, your God.

Ezekiel 8:10

I went in and looked—figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts, all the idols of the house of Israel, pictured around the wall.

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the hair of my head. The spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in divine vision to Jerusalem to the entrance of the inner gate facing north where the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy stood.

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 12:8

face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The likeness of the Lord he beholds. Why, then, do you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?

Acts 17:29

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the Lord, your God, hates.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“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!”

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;

Revelation 16:2

The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Festering and ugly sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast or worshiped its image.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

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.”