Exodus 20:4

New Century Version

“You must not make for yourselves an idol that looks like anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

King Jeroboam asked for advice. Then he made two golden calves. “It is too long a journey for you to go to Jerusalem to worship,” he said to the people. “Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.”

2 Kings 17:12

They served idols when the Lord had said, “You must not do this.”

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh carved an idol and put it in the Temple of God. God had said to David and his son Solomon about the Temple, “I will be worshiped forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

Psalm 78:58

They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

Psalm 97:7

Those who worship idols should be ashamed; they brag about their gods. All the gods should worship the Lord.

Exodus 20:23

You must not use gold or silver to make idols for yourselves; do not worship these gods in addition to me.

Exodus 32:1

The people saw that a long time had passed and Moses had not come down from the mountain. So they gathered around Aaron and said, “Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don’t know what has happened to him. Make us gods who will lead us.”

Exodus 32:23

The people said to me, ‘Moses led us out of Egypt, but we don’t know what has happened to him. Make us gods who will lead us.’

Exodus 32:4

He took the gold from the people and formed it with a tool and made a statue of a calf. Then the people said, “Israel, these are your gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:8

They have quickly turned away from the things I commanded them to do. They have made for themselves a calf covered with gold, and they have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. They have said, ‘Israel, these are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.’ ”

Exodus 34:17

“Do not make gods of melted metal.

Isaiah 42:17

But those who trust in idols, who say to their statues, ‘You are our gods’ will be rejected in disgrace.

Isaiah 42:8

“I am the Lord. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another; I will not let idols take the praise that should be mine.

Isaiah 45:16

All the people who make idols will be put to great shame; they will go off together in disgrace.

Ezekiel 20:7

I said to them, “Each one of you must throw away the hateful idols you have seen and liked. Don’t make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 8:10

So I entered and looked, and I saw every kind of crawling thing and hateful beast and all the idols of the people of Israel, carved on the wall all around.

Ezekiel 8:3

It stretched out the shape of a hand and caught me by the hair on my head. The Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the sky. He took me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple. In the courtyard was the idol that caused God to be jealous.

Leviticus 19:4

“ ‘Do not worship idols or make statues or gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

“ ‘Don’t make idols for yourselves or set up statues or memorials. Don’t put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 12:8

I speak face to face with him— clearly, not with hidden meanings. He has even seen the form of the Lord. You should be afraid to speak against my servant Moses.”

Acts 17:29

Since we are God’s children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.

Romans 1:23

They traded the glory of God who lives forever for the worship of idols made to look like earthly people, birds, animals, and snakes.

Deuteronomy 16:22

and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Anyone will be cursed who makes an idol or statue and secretly sets it up, because the Lord hates the idols people make.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 5:8

“You must not make for yourselves any idols or anything to worship that looks like something in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.

Revelation 16:2

The first angel left and poured out his bowl on the land. Then ugly and painful sores came upon all those who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his idol.

Revelation 9:20

The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.

Judges 17:3

Micah gave the twenty-eight pounds of silver to his mother. Then she said, “I will give this silver to the Lord. I will have my son make an idol and a statue. So I will give the silver back to you.”