Lexicon :: Strong's G1497 - eidōlon

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

“Do not turn to worthless idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am the LORD your God.

“I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines,[fn] and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

“you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

“Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

“You saw their abhorrent images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.

“They have provoked my jealousy

with what is not a god;[fn]

they have enraged me with their worthless idols.

So I will provoke their jealousy

with what is not a people;[fn]

I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news in the temples of their idols and among the people.

At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom,[fn] the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

“For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgments as his father David did.

They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You must not do this.”

“Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts ​— ​worse evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done ​— ​and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin,

He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he bowed in worship to them.

In addition, Josiah eradicated the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the abhorrent things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the LORD’s temple.

They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news to their idols and the people.

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,

but the LORD made the heavens.

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.

He also removed the high places and the shrines[fn] from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.

King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother,[fn] from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the former ways of his ancestor David.[fn] He did not seek the Baals

So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed its altars and images and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.

and they abandoned the temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and served the Asherah poles and the idols. So there was wrath against Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.

He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

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

In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.

All who serve carved images,

those who boast in worthless idols, will be put to shame.

All the gods[fn] must worship him.

Their idols are silver and gold,

made by human hands.

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,

made by human hands.

Indeed, they[fn] will be ashamed of the sacred trees

you desired,

and you will be embarrassed because of the garden shrines

you have chosen.

“and as I did to Samaria and its worthless images

will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols? ”

Therefore Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for in this way,

and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:

when he makes all the altar stones

like crushed bits of chalk,

no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made from wood and stone by human hands. So they have destroyed them.

“When I look, there is no one;

there is no counselor among them;

when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

“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.’

who burn with lust among the oaks,

under every green tree,

who slaughter children in the wadis

below the clefts of the rocks?

“Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.”

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?

Or can the skies alone give showers?

Are you not the LORD our God?

We therefore put our hope in you,

for you have done all these things.

LORD, my strength and my stronghold,

my refuge in a time of distress,

the nations will come to you

from the ends of the earth, and they will say,

“Our ancestors inherited only lies,

worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

“Your altars will be desolated and your shrines[fn] smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

“Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,[fn] your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.

“You will all know that I am the LORD when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak ​— ​the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.

I went in and looked, and there engraved all around the wall was every kind of abhorrent thing ​— ​crawling creatures and beasts ​— ​as well as all the idols of the house of Israel.

“You took some of your clothing and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened![fn]