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'Carved Image' in the Bible

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

God, As Spiritethics, personalIdolsIdolatry Consists OfCarvingLike CreaturesAvoiding IdolatrySecond CommandmentSelf ImageTaking Care Of The Earthstatuesimage

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

High PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Be careful! Otherwise, you will be destroyed when you make carved images for yourself all sorts of images in the form of man, woman,

Like CreaturesAvoiding IdolatryRegulations For Men And WomenAncestral Worshipimage

Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the covenant of the LORD your God, who established that covenant with you. Don't make carved images of any likeness in violation of everything that you were commanded by the LORD your God.

Forgetting GodAvoiding Idolatry

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.

False GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

AbominationsCoveting, prohibition ofCalf worshipGoldMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinWarningAbhorAbominations, To GodAbominations, PracticesWorldly SnaresBurning Idolatrous ThingsAbandoning Idolsimage

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

StonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal - an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman - and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

AbominationsCreativityAmenArtMetalworkersSecrecyIdolsPagan PracticesAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, To GodAvoiding SecrecyFate Of Idolaterscursesimage

At the carved images near Gilgal he returned and said, “King Eglon, I have a secret message for you.” The king called for silence, and all his attendants left him.

Information In SecretCurbing Speech

Ehud escaped while the servants waited. He crossed over the Jordan near the carved images and reached Seirah.

EscapingEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingEscaping From People

He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate the silver to the Lord for my son’s benefit to make a carved image overlaid with silver.”

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver, and it was in Micah’s house.

CraftsmenMetalworkersSkill

The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers, “Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image overlaid with silver in these houses? Now think about what you should do.”

Five People

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image overlaid with silver, the ephod, and the household idols, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.

Dishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

Household GodsCarvingWhat Do You Do?

So the priest was pleased and took his ephod, household idols, and carved image, and went with the people.

Robbing Gods

The Danites set up the carved image for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the Danite tribe until the time of the exile from the land.

Priests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect

So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, and it was there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.

The House Of God At ShilohThe Temple At Shiloh

Thus were these nations doing reverence unto Yahweh, and yet, unto their own carved images, were they rendering service, - yea, their sons and their son's sons, as the fathers offered, so are, they, offering until this day.

GrandchildrenInexperienceIndecisionIdol WorshipFalse Religion To This DayServing One's Own Gods

Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

Covenant, God's with Davidelection, privileges ofSculptureSacrilegeServing AsherahA Place For God's NameChristmas Tree

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Covenant, God's with Davidelection, privileges ofJerusalem, Significance OfPollutions

And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

ReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

His prayer and how God granted his request, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Records of Hozai.

Answered PrayerUnfaithfulness, To God

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Children, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.

Crushing

They enraged Him with their high placesand provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

AbhorGod, Suffering OfGod, Zeal OfGod, JealousGod Opposes Idolatry

All who serve carved images,those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.All the gods must worship Him.

Fate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryWorship God!

They fashioned a calf at Horeb and worshipped a carved image.

As my hand has reached to the idolatrous kingdoms whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

God Is Truthful

And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth.

BabylonThe Prophecy Towards BabylonDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedPutting Away Other GodsAbandoning Idols

And you will defile your carved images overlaid with silver, and your cast images plated with gold. You will scatter them like a bloodstained cloth, and will say to them, “Be gone!”

GoldMenstruationOverlaid With SilverAbandoning IdolsUnclean Things

Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates?

Arts And Crafts, Types ofBeauty, In ArtefactsChainsGoldMetalworkersGoldsmithscraftsmanship

And he being poor of oblation will choose wood that will not be rotten; he will seek to him a wise artificer to prepare a carved image that will not shake.

UnreliabilityWisdom, Human NaturedissatisfactionMotionlessnessSkilled PeopleNo DecayMoving Oncraftsmanshipimage

They were turned back, they will be ashamed with shame, trusting in the carved image, saying to the molten image, Thou our God.

Faith, Nature OfTrust, Lack OfTrusting IdolsFate Of IdolatersShame Of IdolatryFutile Faith

All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.

Folly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism

So it serveth for a man to burn, And he hath taken of the branches and warmed himself, Also he kindleth a fire, and baketh bread, - Also he maketh a GOD, and hath bowed himself down, Hath made of it a carved image, and adored it:

Adoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

And the residue thereof, Into a GOD, he maketh, Into his carved image, - Adoreth it, and boweth down and prayeth unto it, And saith Deliver me, for, my GOD, thou art!

BowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

Assemble yourselves and come Draw near together, ye escaped of the nations, - They know not Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray unto a GOD who cannot save.

FugitivesFalse ReligionemptinessGod, Uniqueness OfPredestinationReligionUnreliabilityWoodCarrying IdolsSurvivors Of The NationsIdolatryNature Of IdolatryPraying AmissThose Who Were IgnorantSolar Eclipse

therefore I declared to you long ago.I announced it to you before it occurred,so you could not claim, ‘My idol caused them;my carved image and cast idol control them.’

SculptureWoodGod Speaking Of OldGod Opposes IdolatryEverything Happening For A Reasonimage

Behold, [hear the sound of] the cry of the daughter of my people from the distant land [of Babylon]:“Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her King within her?”[But the Lord answers] “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images and with foreign idols?”

Provoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.Every goldsmith is put to shameby his carved image,for his cast images are a lie;there is no breath in them.

Fools, Characteristics OfIdolatry, Objections ToHaving No BreathFoolishness Of MenShame Of IdolatryDisappointmentHinduism

A drought will come on her waters,and they will be dried up.For it is a land of carved images,and they go mad because of terrifying things.

drought, physicalWaters Drying Up

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,for his cast images are a lie;there is no breath in them.

CraftsmenFools, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathFoolishness Of MenShame Of IdolatryThose Who Were Ignorant

Therefore, look, the days are comingwhen I will punish Babylon’s carved images.Her entire land will suffer shame,and all her slain will lie fallen within her.

Condemnation Of BabylonAbandoning IdolsThe judgment of babylon

Therefore, look, the days are coming—this is the Lord’s declaration—when I will punish her carved images,and the wounded will groanthroughout her land.

Abandoning Idols

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

False ConfidenceShrinesSecret SinsConcealment, Of SinGod Not SeeingActing In SecretLooking And SeeingScofferselders

The more I called out to them, the farther they fled from me; they sacrificed to Baals, burning incense to carved images.

Baal Worship, HistorySuperstitionGrowth Of EvilPeople Going AstrayIdolatryHow Not To WorshipOthers Summoning

All her idols shall be broken in pieces,All her earnings [from her idolatry] shall be burned with fire,And all her images I shall make desolate;For from the earnings of a prostitute she collected them,And to the earnings of a prostitute they shall return.

ProstitutionHarlotsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWages Of A ProstituteAbandoning Idols

“I will also cut off your carved imagesAnd your sacred pillars from among you,So that you will no longer worship and bow downTo the work of your hands.

BowingStonesObelisksBowing To False GodsIdolatryAbandoning Idolsstatues

Then will Yahweh give command concerning thee, None of thy name shall be sown any more, - out of the house of thy gods, will I cut off carved image and molten image, I will appoint thy grave, for thou art of little esteem.

The DeadFalse ReligionExile, in assyriaTemples, HeathenDestruction Of Satan's WorksNames Blotted OutAbandoning Idols

What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, - though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!

CreativitydistrustGod, Uniqueness OfIdolatry, Objections ToMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinSculptureUnreliabilityIdols Not ExistingTrusting IdolsMisteachingDumbnessUseless IdolsIdolatryDumbimageHinduismFutile Faith

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