The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image f
They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the wate
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselve
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a crafts
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘Wh
And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the s
Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the wel
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anythin