Exodus 20:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

2 Kings 17:12

they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”

2 Chronicles 33:7

The carved image of the idol that he had made he set 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 will put my name forever;

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 97:7

All servants of images are put to shame, those who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

Exodus 20:23

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

Exodus 32:1

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Exodus 32:23

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

Exodus 32:4

He took these from them, formed them in a mold, and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Exodus 32:8

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Exodus 34:17

“You shall not make cast idols.

Isaiah 42:17

They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame— those who trust in carved images, who say to cast images, “You are our gods.”

Isaiah 42:8

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

Isaiah 45:16

All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in disgrace together.

Ezekiel 20:7

And I said to them, “Cast away the detestable things on which your eyes feast, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all around, were all kinds of creeping things and loathsome animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:3

It stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, to the seat of the image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Acts 17:29

“Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

Romans 1:23

and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who makes an idol or casts an image, anything abhorrent to the Lord, the work of an artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall respond, saying, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 5:8

“ ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

Revelation 16:2

So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and a foul and painful sore came on those who had the brand of the beast and who worshiped its image.

Revelation 9:20

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

Judges 17:3

Then he returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I consecrate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an idol of cast metal.”