Here you will find all Bible passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Idols’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to really find all the verses and occurrences.
The term ‘Idols’ comes from 127 times in the Bible. In the following you will find all relevant Bible passages divided according to the corresponding book. Here are the Bible verses about ‘Idols’:
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Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Amos
Have you not carried the tabernacle of your Moloch, the image of your idols, the star which you have made for your gods?
Amos 5:26
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Amos: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Acts
but command them only to abstain from defilement by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:20
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality; if you take heed of it, you are doing right. Farewell! »
Acts 15:29
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was kindled within him, seeing the city full of idols.
Acts 17:16
But as for the Gentiles who have believed, We sent and commanded them not to observe any of these things, but only to beware of things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and those strangled, and sexual immorality.
Acts 21:25
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Acts: 4
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Daniel
but you exalted yourself above the Lord of heaven; and the vessels of his house were brought before you, and you and your rulers, your wives and concubines drank wine from them, and you praised idols of silver and gold, brazen, iron, wood, and stone, which neither see nor hear nor to understand; but you have not glorified the God in whose hand are your breath and all your ways.
Daniel 5:23
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Deuteronomy / 5. Mose
But thus ye shall do to them: tear down their altars, break down their pillars, smash their branches in pieces, and burn their idols with fire.
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 7:5
and you saw their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold that are with them.
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 28:69
They sacrificed to idols which are not God, to gods which they knew not; new gods who were at hand, whom your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 32:17
They provoked me to zeal with things that are not gods; they provoked me to anger with their idols; and I will provoke them also by a people that is not a people; I will provoke them to anger through a foolish people!
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 32:21
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Deuteronomy / 5. Mose: 4
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Ezekiel
And I will cast the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 6:5
Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be desolate, and the high places desolate; your altars shall be deserted and destroyed, your idols broken and destroyed, your pillars of the sun thrown down, and your works destroyed.
Ezekiel 6:6
But those of you who escape will remember me among the nations, where they were taken captive, when I have broken their lustful heart that has turned away from me, and their eyes that are lusting after their idols. Then they will displease themselves because of the wickedness they have done with all their abominations,
Ezekiel 6:9
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie in the midst of their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on every high mountain, under every green tree and under every leafy oak, in the places , where they prepared a sweet sacrificial fragrance for all their idols.
Ezekiel 6:13
So I went in and looked, and behold, there were carved images of all kinds of reptiles and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, all around on the wall.
Ezekiel 8:10
Son of man, these men have taken their idols in their hearts and set before them the offense of their iniquity!
Ezekiel 14:3
Should I be questioned by them? Therefore speak to them, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel, who puts his idols in his heart, and sets before him the offense of his iniquity, and comes unto the prophet, I, the LORD himself, will after him multitude of his idols answer,
Ezekiel 14:4
to touch the hearts of the house of Israel, because they have alienated themselves from me for all their idols.
Ezekiel 14:5
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Repent, and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:6
For everyone (whether of the house of Israel or of the strangers who dwell among Israel) who turns away from me and takes his idols in his heart and puts before him the stumbling block of his iniquity and still goes to the prophet come to ask me counsel through him, and I, the LORD, will answer him myself.
Ezekiel 14:7
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast wasted thy wealth, and in thy fornications have bared thy shame against all thy lovers, and against all thy abominable idols, and because of the blood of thy children which thou hast sacrificed unto them,
Ezekiel 16:36
does not eat the meat of sacrifices on the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor dishonor his neighbor’s wife, nor go to his wife during her uncleanness;
Ezekiel 18:6
oppressing the poor and needy, not returning the pledge, lifting up his eyes to idols, and committing abominations;
Ezekiel 18:12
does not eat on the mountains, does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 18:15
I said to them, Cast away every one of the abominations that are in front of you, and do not defile yourselves with Egyptian idols. I, the LORD, am your God!
Ezekiel 20:7
But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me, that every one should throw away from himself the abominations which he had before him, and forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out my wrath on them and cool my anger on them in the midst of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:8
because they rejected my statutes and did not live according to my statutes, also profaned my sabbaths, because their hearts were only after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:16
I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor follow their customs, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:18
because they did not observe my judgments and rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths and fixed their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Ezekiel 20:24
Yes, by offering your gifts, by passing your children through the fire, you defile yourselves in all your idols to this day; and should I still be questioned by you, house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be questioned by you.
Ezekiel 20:31
Go, saith the Lord GOD, house of Israel, and serve every one your idols. After that you will certainly listen to me and henceforth profane my holy name no more with your gifts and idols.
Ezekiel 20:39
Thus says the Lord GOD: O city that sheds blood in its midst, that its time come, and which makes idols in itself, to be defiled!
Ezekiel 22:3
You have sinned by the blood you have shed, and you have defiled yourself by the idols you have made; you have caused your days to draw near, and you have come to your years! Therefore I will shame you among the nations and make you a mockery of all countries.
Ezekiel 22:4
So she clung to them in her fornication, all Assyrians of choice, and defiled herself with all their idols, against which she was inflamed.
Ezekiel 23:7
This will happen to you because of your fornication, which you committed with the Gentiles, and by their idols you defiled yourself.
Ezekiel 23:30
that they have committed adultery, and that there is blood on their hands; that they committed adultery with their idols; that they caused their own children, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to be consumed?
Ezekiel 23:37
For when they had sacrificed their children to their idols, that same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. Behold, they have done this in the midst of my house.
Ezekiel 23:39
So they will put your sexual immorality on you, and you will bear the sin that you have committed with your idols, so that you may know that I am the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:49
Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will destroy idols, and cut off idols from Noph; there shall be no longer any Egyptian prince over the land; I will frighten the land of Egypt
Ezekiel 30:13
Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: You ate with the blood; you have lifted up your eyes to your idols and have shed blood; and you should still own the land?
Ezekiel 33:25
I poured out my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land, and because they defiled it with their idols.
Ezekiel 36:18
I will sprinkle clean water on you, that you may be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.
Ezekiel 36:25
And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their abominations, or with any transgression of any kind. And I will rescue them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 37:23
but the Levites, who departed from me when Israel went astray, and ran away from me after their idols, so that they borne their iniquities;
Ezekiel 44:10
For because they served them before their idols, and became a stumbling block to the house of Israel, I lifted up my hand on them, saith the Lord GOD, that they should bear their iniquities.
Ezekiel 44:12
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Ezekiel: 35
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Genesis / 1. Mose
But Laban went out to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
Genesis / 1. Mose 31:19
Rachel took the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. And Laban searched through the whole tent, but did not find them.
Genesis / 1. Mose 31:34
Then she said to her father, My lord do not look so angry because I cannot get up before you; I’m after the way of women! But he searched diligently and did not find the household idols.
Genesis / 1. Mose 31:35
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Genesis / 1. Mose: 3
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Habakkuk
What use is a carved image that the sculptor has made, a cast image, and a teacher of lies beside it? For he who made it trusts in his own work, so that he makes dumb idols.
Habakkuk 2:18
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Habakkuk: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Hosea
For the children of Israel will remain for many days without a king, without princes, without sacrifices, without an image, without a priestly ephod, and without household idols.
Hosea 3:4
Ephraim is bound to idols; leave him alone!
Hosea 4:17
They set up kings without my will, princes without my knowing it; of their silver and gold they made idols for themselves, to destroy themselves.
Hosea 8:4
Israel is a creeping vine that bears fruit. The more fruit he brought, the more altars they built; the better their country was, the more beautiful idols they made.
Hosea 10:1
Their hearts are divided, now they shall pay: he will break down their altars and shatter their idols.
Hosea 10:2
And now they go on sinning, and cast themselves images of their silver, idols of their invention, all of them the work of artists; Of them they say, the sacrificing people: “One should kiss the calves!”
Hosea 13:2
(H14-9) Ephraim says: What use are idols to me? I, I want to hear him and look to him. I, I am like a green cypress; it shall be shown that your fruit comes from me!
Hosea 14:9
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Hosea: 7
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. Chronicle
And they stripped him, and took his head and his armor, and proclaimed this glad tiding to their idols and to the people round about in the land of the Philistines.
1. Chronicle 10:9
For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the LORD made heaven.
1. Chronicle 16:26
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. Chronicle: 2
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. John
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. John: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. Kings
For he put the scoundrels out of the land, and removed all the shameful idols that his fathers had made.
1. Kings 15:12
For all the sins of Baasha and for the sins of his son Elah, which they did, causing Israel to sin, and provoking anger against the LORD God of Israel with their idols.
1. Kings 16:13
And he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins, whereby he caused Israel to sin, so that they provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
1. Kings 16:26
And he did very many abominations, walking after idols, just as the Amorites did, whom the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.
1. Kings 21:26
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. Kings: 4
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. Corinthians
But as for sacrifices made to idols, we know, since we have all knowledge; knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
1. Corinthians 8:1
So as to the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no idol in the world, and that there is no God but the One.
1. Corinthians 8:4
But not all have knowledge, but some, being accustomed to idols, still eat the meat as meat sacrificed to idols, and thus their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1. Corinthians 8:7
What do I say now? That the sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1. Corinthians 10:19
But if anyone said to you, This is meat sacrificed to idols! so do not eat it, for the sake of him who reports it and for the sake of your conscience.
1. Corinthians 10:28
You know that when you were Gentiles you were drawn to dumb idols as you were led.
1. Corinthians 12:2
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. Corinthians: 6
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. Samuel
So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers round about the land of the Philistines to preach this glad tiding in the house of their idols and among the people.
1. Samuel 31:9
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 1. Thessalonians
For they themselves tell of us how we were received among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
1. Thessalonians 1:9
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 1. Thessalonians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 2. Chronicle
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served ashes and idols. Then the wrath of God came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their iniquity.
2. Chronicle 24:18
His prayer, and how God was asked of him, and all his sin and his iniquity, and the places on which he built high places and set up ashes and idols before he was humiliated, behold, this is described in the Stories of the Seers.
2. Chronicle 33:19
And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh made and served them.
2. Chronicle 33:22
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 2. Chronicle: 3
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 2. Kings
And they worshiped idols, of which the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do such things.
2. Kings 17:12
So it was that these peoples worshiped the LORD and at the same time served their idols; their children and their children’s children also do as their fathers did to this day.
2. Kings 17:41
Because Manasseh king of Judah committed these abominations, which are worse than all the abominations that the Amorites who were before him did, and caused Judah also to sin with their idols,
2. Kings 21:11
And he walked all in the way that his father walked, and served the idols which his father had served, and worshiped them;
2. Kings 21:21
Josiah also cut off the necromancers and magicians, the teraphim and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, to fulfill the words of the law that were written in the book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2. Kings 23:24
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 2. Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in 2. Samuel
And they left their idols there; But David and his men took them away.
2. Samuel 5:21
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book 2. Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Jeremiah
Listen! the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion, is not her king with her? Why have they angered Me with their idols, with strange idols?
Jeremiah 8:19
Such idols are like turned palm trees; they cannot talk; one has to carry them because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do harm, and they have no power to do good.
Jeremiah 10:5
Are there rain-givers among the idols of the Gentiles? Or can the sky give rain showers? Is it not you, O LORD our God? And in you we hope; because you did it all!
Jeremiah 14:22
Therefore I will first recompense their iniquity and sin twice over, because they have profaned my land with their shameful idols and filled my inheritance with their abominations.
Jeremiah 16:18
They smoked idols in vain, and stumbled in their ways, the everlasting paths, to walk on steep inclines,
Jeremiah 18:15
but they put their abominable idols in the house that is called by my name, and thereby defiled it.
Jeremiah 32:34
Declare it among the nations, and let it be heard, set up a standard; let it be heard, and do not conceal it, say: Babylon is taken, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is troubled, her idols are ashamed, and her idols are troubled.
Jeremiah 50:2
drought over their waters, that they dry up! For it is a land of idols, and they glorify their monstrosities like mad.
Jeremiah 50:38
Therefore, behold, the days come when I will judge the idols of Babylon; and all their land shall be put to shame, and all their slain shall fall in their midst.
Jeremiah 51:47
Therefore behold, the days are coming, saith the LORD, when I will judge their idols, and in all their land the wounded shall groan.
Jeremiah 51:52
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Jeremiah: 10
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Isaiah
and their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their hands and what their fingers have made.
Isaiah 2:8
And the idols will disappear altogether.
Isaiah 2:18
In that day man shall throw down to moles and bats the idols of silver and gold that he has made for himself to worship.
Isaiah 2:20
How my hand took hold of the kingdoms of idols, whose images were mightier than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
Isaiah 10:10
And as I did Samaria and her idols, shall I not also do so to Jerusalem and her gods?
Isaiah 10:11
Prophecy against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt! Then the Egyptian idols will tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will perish within themselves.
Isaiah 19:1
And the spirit will go out from within the Egyptians, and I will destroy their counsel; then they will consult the idols, the sorcerers, the necromancers, and the soothsayers.
Isaiah 19:3
Behold, there came a horseman, a man with a horse and a horse, and said, Babylon is fallen, fallen, and she smashed all her idols to the ground.
Isaiah 21:9
And ye shall profane your idols overlaid with silver, and the gold covering of your cast images; you will throw them away like something foul and say to them, Get out!
Isaiah 30:22
For in that day everyone will throw away their idols of silver and gold, which your hands have made an iniquity to you.
Isaiah 31:7
I am the LORD, that is my name; and I will give my honor to no other, nor my glory to idols!
Isaiah 42:8
Let those who trust in idols, and say to cast images, ye be our gods, turn back, and be utterly ashamed.
Isaiah 42:17
Assemble yourselves, come, come all together, you survivors among the Gentiles! They have no understanding who carry the wood of their idols and pray to a god who cannot help them.
Isaiah 45:20
You burn up for idols under every green tree; you sacrifice little children by the streams under the clefts of the rocks.
Isaiah 57:5
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Isaiah: 14
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Jonah
(H2-9) The worshipers of idle idols forsake their grace;
Jonah 2:9
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Jonah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Levitikus
You shall not turn to idols, nor make yourselves cast gods, for I am the LORD your God.
Levitikus 19:4
You shall not make idols, nor carved images, nor set up pillars for yourselves, nor set stone images in your land, to bow down to them; for I, the LORD, am your God.
Levitikus 26:1
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your pillars and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
Levitikus 26:30
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Levitikus: 3
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Micah
and all their idols shall be shattered, and all their offerings shall be burned with fire; and I will give up all their carved images to desolation; for they were brought together by the wages of whores, and they shall become again the wages of whores!
Micah 1:7
(H5-13) I will pluck up the ashes from among you and destroy your idols.
Micah 4:14
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Micah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Revelation
But I have a little against you, that you have those there who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
Revelation 2:14
But I have this against you, that you let Jezebel, the woman who calls herself a prophetess, teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 2:20
But the rest of the people who were not killed by these plagues did not repent from the works of their hands, so that they no longer worshiped demons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
Revelation 9:20
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Revelation: 3
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Psalms
But they multiply their idols and hasten after another; I will not share in their bloody donations, nor take their names on my lips.
Psalms 16:4
(H31-7) I hate those who keep to vain idols, and I trust in the LORD.
Psalms 31:7
And they provoked him to wrath with their high places, and to jealousy with their idols.
Psalms 78:58
For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the LORD made heaven.
Psalms 96:5
All who serve images and boast in idols shall be ashamed; before him all the gods bow.
Psalms 97:7
And they hung on to Baal-Peor, and ate sacrifices of dead idols,
Psalms 106:28
And they served their idols, and these became their snare.
Psalms 106:36
And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was profaned with bloodshed.
Psalms 106:38
Their idols are silver and gold, made with human hands.
Psalms 115:4
The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, made with the hands of men.
Psalms 135:15
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Psalms: 10
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Judges
But he himself returned from the idols at Gilgal and said to the king, I have a secret to tell you, O king. But he said: Be silent! And all who stood around him went out from him. Then Ehud came in to him.
Judges 3:19
But Ehud escaped while they were hesitating, and passed over the idols and escaped to Seira.
Judges 3:26
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Judges: 2
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Romans
You say that one should not commit adultery, and do you commit adultery yourself? You abhor idols and commit robbery of temples?
Romans 2:22
Scriptures related to Idols in the biblical book Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Idols’ in Zechariah
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of idols from the land, that they shall be remembered no more; I will also bring out the prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land to drive.
Zechariah 13:2
Number of the word / term ‘Idols’ in Zechariah: 1
These Bible verses are from a 1951 translation of the Royalty Free Schlachter Translation.
Number of Bible verses found on the topic: 127
