I AM THAT I AM
- - A name of deity: ... Ex 3:14; Re 1:4,11,17|
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ICE
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Job 6:16; 38:29;
Ps 147:17; Pr 25:13|
IDLENESS
- - General scriptures concerning: ... Pr 6:6-11; 10:4,5,26;
12:9,24,27; 13:4; 14:23; 15:19; 18:9; 19:15,24; 20:4,13; 21:25,26; 22:13;
23:21; 24:30-34; 26:13-16; Ec 4:5; 10:18; Isa 56:10; Eze 16:49; Mt 20:6,7;
Lu 19:20-25; Ac 17:21; 2Th 3:10,11; 1Ti 5:13|
- - Forbidden: ... Ro 12:11; Heb 6:12|
- - Produce apathy: ... Pr 12:27; 26:15|
- - Akin to extravagance: ... Pr 18:9|
- - Accompanied by conceit: ... Pr 26:16|
- - LEAD TO
...... Poverty: ... Pr 10:4; 20:13|
...... Want: ... Pr 20:4; 24:34|
...... Hunger: ... Pr 19:15; 20:13|
...... Bondage: ... Pr 12:24|
...... Disappointment: ... Pr 13:4; 21:25|
...... Ruin: ... Pr 24:30,31; Ec 10:18|
...... Tattling and meddling: ... 1Ti 5:13|
- - Effects of, afford instruction to others: ... Pr
24:30-32|
- - Remonstrance against: ... Pr 6:6,9|
- - False excuses for: ... Pr 20:4; 22:13|
- - Illustrated: ... Pr 26:14; Mt 25:18,26|
- - Exemplified
...... Watchmen: ... Isa 56:10|
...... Athenians: ... Ac 17:21|
...... Thessalonians: ... 2Th 3:11|
- - See LAZINESS
- - See INDUSTRY
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IDOL
- - Manufacture of: ... Ex 20:4; 32:4,20; De 4:23; Isa
40:19,20; 44:9-12,17; Hab 2:18; Ac 19:24,25|
- - Manufacture of, forbidden: ... Ex 20:4; 34:17|
- - Made of
...... Gold: ... Ex 32:3,4; Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-17; Isa
2:20; 30:22; 31:7; Ho 8:4|
...... Silver: ... Isa 2:20; 30:22; 31:7; Ho 8:4|
...... Wood and stone: ... Le 26:1; De 4:28; 2Ki 19:18;
Isa 37:19; 41:6; 44:13-19; Eze 20:32|
- - Coverings of: ... Isa 30:22|
- - Prayer to, unanswered: ... 1Ki 18:25-29; Isa 16:12|
- - Things offered to, not to be eaten: ... Ex 34:15|
- - See ICONOCLASM
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IDOLATRY
- - WICKED PRACTICES OF
...... Human sacrifices: ... Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 12:31;
18:10; 2Ki 3:26,27; 16:3; 17:17,18; 21:6; 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6;
Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5; Jer 7:31; 19:4-7; 32:35; Eze 16:20,21; 20:26,31;
23:37,39; Mic 6:7|
...... Practices of, relating to the dead: ... De 14:1|
...... Licentiousness of: ... Ex 32:6,25; Nu 25:1-3;
1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 2Ki 17:30; 23:7; Eze 16:17; 23:1-44; Ho 4:12-14;
Am 2:8; Mic 1:7; Ro 1:24,26,27; 1Co 10:7,8; 1Pe 4:3,4; Re 2:14,20-22;
9:20,21; 14:8; 17:1-6|
- - OTHER CUSTOMS OF
...... Offered burnt offerings: ... Ex 32:6; 1Ki 18:26;
Ac 14:13|
...... Libations: ... Isa 57:6; 65:11; Jer 7:18; 19:13;
32:29; 44:17,19,25; Eze 20:28|
...... Libations of wine: ... De 32:38|
...... Libations of blood: ... Ps 16:4; Zec 9:7|
...... Meat offerings: ... Isa 57:6; Jer 7:18; 44:17;
Eze 16:19|
...... Peace offerings: ... Ex 32:6|
...... Incense burned on altars: ... 1Ki 12:33; 2Ch
30:14; 34:25; Isa 65:3; Jer 1:16; 11:12,17; 44:3; 48:35; Eze 16:18;
23:41; Ho 11:2|
...... Prayers to idols: ... Jud 10:14; Isa 44:17; 45:20;
46:7; Jon 1:5|
...... Praise: ... Jud 16:24; Da 5:4|
...... Singing and dancing: ... Ex 32:18,19|
...... Music: ... Da 3:5-7|
...... Cutting the flesh: ... 1Ki 18:28; Jer 41:5|
...... Kissing: ... 1Ki 19:18; Ho 13:2; Job 31:27|
...... Bowing: ... 1Ki 19:18; 2Ki 5:18|
...... Tithes and gifts: ... 2Ki 23:11; Da 11:38; Am
4:4,5|
- - ANNUAL FEASTS: ... 1Ki 12:32; Eze 18:6,11,12,15;
22:9; Da 3:2,3|
- - OBJECTS OF
...... Sun, moon, and stars: ... De 4:19; 2Ki 17:16;
21:3,5; 2Ch 33:3,5; Job 31:26-28; Jer 7:17-20; 8:2; Eze 8:15,16;
Zep 1:4,5; Ac 7:42|
...... Images of angels: ... Col 2:18|
...... Animals: ... Ro 1:23|
...... Gods of Egypt: ... Ex 12:12|
...... Golden calf: ... Ex 32:4|
...... Brazen serpent: ... 2Ki 18:4|
...... Net and drag: ... Hab 1:16|
...... Pictures: ... Nu 33:52; Isa 2:16|
...... Pictures on walls: ... Eze 8:10|
...... Earrings: ... Ge 35:4|
...... See SHRINE
- - DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST: ... Ge 35:2; Ex 20:3-6,23;
23:13; 34:17; Le 19:4; 26:1,30; De 4:15-23,25-28; 5:7-9; 11:16,17,28; 12:31;
16:21,22; 27:15; 28:15-68; 30:17,18; 31:16-21,29; 32:15-26; 1Sa 15:23;
1Ki 9:6-9; Job 31:26-28; Ps 16:4; 44:20,21; 59:8; 79:6; 81:9; 97:7; Isa
42:17; 45:16; Joe 3:12; Jon 2:8; Mic 5:15; Hab 1:16; Ac 15:20,29; 17:16;
Ro 1:25; 1Co 6:9,10; 8:1-13; 10:7,14,20-22; 1Jo 5:21; Re 21:8; 22:15|
...... See ICONOCLASM
- - WARNINGS AGAINST, AND PUNISHMENTS OF: ... De 17:2-5;
2Ch 28:23; Ne 9:27-37; Ps 78:58-64; 106:34-42; Isa 1:29-31; 2:6-22; 30:22;
57:3-13; 65:3,4; Jer 1:15,16; 3:1-11; 5:1-17; 7; 8:1,2,19; 13:9-27; 16;
17:1-6; 18:13-15; 19; 22:9; 32:35; 44; 48:8; Eze 6; 7:19; 8:5-18; 9; 14:1-14;
16; 20; 22:4; 23; 44:10-12; Ho 1:2; 2:2-5; 4:12-19; 5:1-3; 8:5-14; 9:10;
10; 11:2; 12:11-14; 13:1-4; 14:8; Am 3:14; 4:4,5; 5:5; Mic 1:1-9; 5:12-14;
6:16; Zep 1; Mal 2:11-13|
- - PROPHECIES RELATING TO: ... Ex 12:12; Nu 33:4; Isa
2:18,20; 17:7,8; 19:1; 21:9; 27:9; 31:7; Jer 10:11,15; 51:44,47,52; Eze
43:7-9; Ho 10:2; Mic 5:13; Zep 2:11; Zec 13:2|
- - FOLLY OF: ... Ex 32:20; De 4:28; 32:37,38; Jud 6:31;
10:14; 1Sa 5:3,4; 12:21; 1Ki 18:27; 2Ki 3:13; 19:18; 2Ch 25:15; 28:22,23;
Ps 96:5; 106:20; 115:4,5,8; 135:15-18; Isa 2:8; 16:12; 36:18; 37:19; 40:12-26;
41:23,24,26-29; 43:9; 44:9-20; 45:20; 46:1,2,6,7; 47:12-15; 57:13; Jer
2:28; 10:3-16; 11:12; 14:22; 16:19,20; 48:13; 51:17; Da 5:23; Ho 8:5,6;
Hab 2:18,19; Zec 10:2; Ac 14:15; 17:22,23,29; Ro 1:22,23; 1Co 8:4,5; 10:19;
12:2; Ga 4:8; Re 9:20|
- - Forbidden: ... Ex 20:2,3; De 5:7|
- - CONSISTS IN
...... Bowing down to images: ... Ex 20:5; De 5:9|
...... Worshipping images: ... Isa 44:17; Da 3:5,10,15|
...... Sacrificing to images: ... Ps 106:38; Ac 7:41|
...... Worshipping other gods: ... De 30:17; Ps 81:9|
...... Swearing by other gods: ... Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7|
...... Walking after other gods: ... De 8:19|
...... Speaking in the name of other gods: ... De 18:20|
...... Looking to other gods: ... Ho 3:1|
...... Serving other gods: ... De 7:4; Jer 5:19|
...... Fearing other gods: ... 2Ki 17:35|
...... Sacrificing to other gods: ... Ex 22:20|
...... Worshipping the true God by an image, &c: ...
Ex 32:4-6; Ps 106:19,20|
...... Worshipping angels: ... Col 2:18|
...... Worshipping the host of heaven: ... De 4:19;
17:3|
...... Worshipping demons: ... Mt 4:9-10; Re 9:20|
...... Worshipping dead men: ... Ps 106:28|
...... Setting up idols in the heart: ... Eze 14:3,4|
...... Covetousness: ... Eph 5:5; Col 3:5|
...... Sensuality: ... Php 3:19|
- - Is changing the glory of God into an image: ...
Ro 1:23; Ac 17:29|
- - Is changing the truth of God into a lie: ... Ro
1:25; Isa 44:20|
- - Is a work of the flesh: ... Ga 5:19,20|
- - Incompatible with the service of God: ... Ge 35:2,3;
Jos 24:23; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 18:21; 2Co 6:15,16|
- - DESCRIBED AS
...... An abomination to God: ... De 7:25|
...... Hateful to God: ... De 16:22; Jer 44:4|
...... Vain and foolish: ... Ps 115:4-8; Isa 44:19;
Jer 10:3|
...... Bloody: ... Eze 23:39|
...... Abominable: ... 1Pe 4:3|
...... Unprofitable: ... Jud 10:14; Isa 46:7|
...... Irrational: ... Ac 17:29; Ro 1:21-23|
...... Defiling: ... Eze 20:7; 36:18|
- - THEY WHO PRACTISE
...... Forget God: ... De 8:19; Jer 18:15|
...... Go astray from God: ... Eze 44:10|
...... Pollute the name of God: ... Eze 20:39|
...... Defile the sanctuary of God: ... Eze 5:11|
...... Are estranged from God: ... Eze 14:5|
...... Forsake God: ... 2Ki 22:17; Jer 16:11|
...... Hate God: ... 2Ch 19:2,3|
...... Provoke God: ... De 31:20; Isa 65:3; Jer 25:6|
...... Are vain in their imaginations: ... Ro 1:21|
...... Are ignorant and foolish: ... Ro 1:21,22|
...... Inflame themselves: ... Isa 57:5|
...... Hold fast their deceit: ... Jer 8:5|
...... Carried away by it: ... 1Co 12:2|
...... Go after it in heart: ... Eze 20:16|
...... Are mad upon it: ... Jer 50:38|
...... Boast of it: ... Ps 97:7|
...... Have fellowship with devils: ... Ho 4:12|
...... Ask counsel of their idols: ... Ho 4:12|
...... Look to idols for deliverance: ... Isa 44:17;
45:20|
...... Swear by their idols: ... Am 8:14|
- - Objects of, numerous: ... 1Co 8:5|
- - OBJECTS OF DESCRIBED AS
...... Strange gods: ... Ge 35:2,4; Jos 24:20|
...... Other gods: ... Jud 2:12,17; 1Ki 14:9|
...... New gods: ... De 32:17; Jud 5:8|
...... Gods that cannot save: ... Isa 45:20|
...... Gods that have not made the heavens: ... Jer
10:11|
...... No gods: ... Jer 5:7; Ga 4:8|
...... Molten gods: ... Ex 34:17; Le 19:4|
...... Molten images: ... De 27:15; Hab 2:18|
...... Graven images: ... Isa 45:20; Ho 11:2|
...... Senseless idols: ... De 4:28; Ps 115:5,7|
...... Dumb idols: ... Hab 2:18|
...... Dumb Stones: ... Hab 2:19|
...... Stocks: ... Jer 3:9; Ho 4:12|
...... Abominations: ... Isa 44:19; Jer 32:34|
...... Images of abomination: ... Eze 7:20|
...... Idols of abomination: ... Eze 16:36|
...... Stumbling blocks: ... Eze 14:3|
...... Teachers of lies: ... Hab 2:18|
...... Wind and confusion: ... Isa 41:29|
...... Nothing: ... Isa 41:24; 1Co 8:4|
...... Helpless: ... Jer 10:5|
...... Vanity: ... Jer 18:15|
...... Vanities of the Gentiles: ... Jer 14:22|
- - Making idols for the purpose of, described and ridiculed:
... Isa 44:10-20|
- - Obstinate sinners judicially given up to: ... De
4:28; 28:64; Ho 4:17|
- - Warnings against: ... De 4:15-19|
- - Exhortations to turn from: ... Eze 14:6; 20:7; Ac
14:15|
- - Renounced on conversion: ... 1Th 1:9|
- - Led to abominable sins: ... Ro 1:26-32; Ac 15:20|
- - SAINTS SHOULD
...... Keep from: ... Jos 23:7; 1Jo 5:21|
...... Flee from: ... 1Co 10:14|
...... Not have anything connected with in their houses: ...
De 7:26|
...... Not partake of any thing connected with: ...
1Co 10:19,20|
...... Not have religious intercourse with those who practise:
... Jos 23:7; 1Co 5:11|
...... Not covenant with those who practise: ... Ex
34:12,15; De 7:2|
...... Not intermarry with those who practise: ... Ex
34:16; De 7:3|
...... Testify against: ... Ac 14:15; 19:26|
...... Refuse to engage in, though threatened with death:
... Da 3:18|
- - Saints preserved by God from: ... 1Ki 19:18; Ro
11:4|
- - Saints refuse to receive the worship of: ... Ac
10:25,26; 14:11-15|
- - Angels refuse to receive the worship of: ... Re
22:8,9|
- - Destruction of, promised: ... Eze 36:25; Zec 13:2|
- - Everything connected with, should be destroyed: ...
Ex 34:13; De 7:5; 2Sa 5:21; 2Ki 23:14|
- - Woe denounced against: ... Hab 2:19|
- - Curse denounced against: ... De 27:15|
- - PUNISHMENT OF
...... Judicial death: ... De 17:2-5|
...... Dreadful judgments which end in death: ... Jer
8:2; 16:1-11|
...... Banishment: ... Jer 8:3; Ho 8:5-8; Am 5:26,27|
...... Exclusion from heaven: ... 1Co 6:9,10; Eph 5:5;
Re 22:15|
...... Eternal torments: ... Re 14:9-11; 21:8|
- - Exemplified
...... Israel: ... Ex 32:1; 2Ki 17:12|
...... Philistines: ... Jud 16:23|
...... Micah: ... Jud 17:4,5|
...... Jeroboam: ... 1Ki 12:28|
...... Maachah: ... 1Ki 15:13|
...... Ahab: ... 1Ki 16:31|
...... Jezebel: ... 1Ki 18:19|
...... Sennacherib: ... 2Ki 19:37|
...... Manasseh: ... 2Ki 21:4-7|
...... Amon: ... 2Ki 21:21|
...... Ahaz: ... 2Ch 28:3|
...... Judah: ... Jer 11:13|
...... Nebuchadnezzar: ... Da 3:1|
...... Belshazzar: ... Da 5:23|
...... People of Lystra: ... Ac 14:11,12|
...... Athenians: ... Ac 17:16|
...... Ephesians: ... Ac 19:28|
- - Zeal against-Exemplified
...... Asa: ... 1Ki 15:12|
...... Josiah: ... 2Ki 23:5|
...... Jehoshaphat: ... 2Ch 17:6|
...... Israel: ... 2Ch 31:1|
...... Manasseh: ... 2Ch 33:15|
- - All forms of, forbidden by the law of Moses: ...
Ex 20:4,5|
- - All heathen nations given up to: ... Ps 96:5; Ro
1:23,25; 1Co 12:2|
- - Led the heathen to think that their gods visited the earth
in bodily shapes: ... Ac 14:11|
- - Led the heathen to consider their gods to have but a local
influence: ... 1Ki 20:23; 2Ki 17:26|
- - OBJECTS OF
...... The heavenly bodies: ... 2Ki 23:5; Ac 7:42|
...... Angels: ... Col 2:18|
...... Departed spirits: ... 1Sa 28:14,15|
...... Earthly creatures: ... Ro 1:23|
...... Images: ... De 29:17; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:17|
- - Temples built for: ... Ho 8:14|
- - Altars raised for: ... 1Ki 18:26; Ho 8:11|
- - Accompanied by feasts: ... 2Ki 10:20; 1Co 10:27,28|
- - OBJECTS OF, WORSHIPPED
...... With sacrifices: ... Nu 22:40; 2Ki 10:24|
...... With libations: ... Isa 57:6; Jer 19:13|
...... With incense: ... Jer 48:35|
...... With prayer: ... 1Ki 18:26; Isa 44:17|
...... With singing and dancing: ... Ex 32:18,19; 1Ki
18:26; 1Co 10:7|
...... By bowing to them: ... 1Ki 19:18; 2Ki 5:18|
...... By kissing them: ... 1Ki 19:18; Ho 13:2|
...... By kissing the hand to them: ... Job 31:26,27|
...... By cutting the flesh: ... 1Ki 18:28|
...... By burning children: ... De 12:31; 2Ch 33:6;
Jer 19:4,5; Eze 16:21|
...... In temples: ... 2Ki 5:18|
...... On high places: ... Nu 22:41; Jer 2:20|
...... In groves: ... Ex 34:13|
...... Under trees: ... Isa 57:5; Jer 2:20|
...... In private houses: ... Jud 17:4,5|
...... On the tops of houses: ... 2Ki 23:12; Zep 1:5|
...... In secret places: ... Isa 57:8|
- - Rites of, obscene and impure: ... Ex 32:25; Nu 25:1-3;
2Ki 17:9; Isa 57:6,8,9; 1Pe 4:3|
- - Divination connected with: ... 2Ch 33:6|
- - Victims sacrificed in, often adorned with garlands: ...
Ac 14:13|
- - IDOLS, &c MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
...... Adrammelech: ... 2Ki 17:31|
...... Anammelech: ... 2Ki 17:31|
...... Ashima: ... 2Ki 17:30|
...... Ashtoreth: ... Jud 2:13; 1Ki 11:33|
...... Baal: ... Jud 2:11-13; 6:25|
...... Baal-berith: ... Jud 8:33; 9:4,46|
...... Baal-peor: ... Nu 25:1-3|
...... Baalzebub: ... 2Ki 1:2,16|
...... Baal-zephon: ... Ex 14:2|
...... Bel: ... Jer 50:2; 51:44|
...... Chemosh: ... Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33|
...... Chiun: ... Am 5:26|
...... Dagon: ... Jud 16:23; 1Sa 5:1-3|
...... Diana: ... Ac 19:24,27|
...... Huzzab: ... Na 2:7|
...... Jupiter: ... Ac 14:12|
...... Mercury: ... Ac 14:12|
...... Molech or Milcom: ... Le 18:21; 1Ki 11:5,33|
...... Merodach: ... Jer 50:2|
...... Nergal: ... 2Ki 17:30|
...... Nebo: ... Isa 46:1|
...... Nibhaz and Tartak: ... 2Ki 17:31|
...... Nisroch: ... 2Ki 19:37|
...... Queen of heaven: ... Jer 44:17,25|
...... Remphan: ... Ac 7:43|
...... Rimmon: ... 2Ki 5:18|
...... Succothbenoth: ... 2Ki 17:30|
...... Tammuz: ... Eze 8:14|
- - Objects of, carried in procession: ... Isa 46:7;
Am 5:26; Ac 7:43|
- - Early notice of, amongst God's professing people: ...
Ge 31:19,30; 35:1-4; Jos 24:2|
- - THE JEWS
...... Practised, in Egypt: ... Jos 24:14; Eze 23:3,19|
...... Brought, out of Egypt with them: ... Eze 23:8;
Ac 7:39-41|
...... Forbidden to practise: ... Ex 20:1-5; 23:24|
...... Often mixed up, with God's worship: ... Ex 32:1-5;
1Ki 12:27,28|
...... Followed the Canaanites in: ... Jud 2:11-13;
1Ch 5:25|
...... Followed the Moabites in: ... Nu 25:1-3|
...... Followed the Assyrians in: ... Eze 16:28-30;
23:5-7|
...... Followed the Syrians in: ... Jud 10:6|
- - Adopted by Solomon: ... 1Ki 11:5-8|
- - Adopted by the wicked kings: ... 1Ki 21:26; 2Ki
21:21; 2Ch 28:2-4; 33:3,7|
- - Example of the kings encouraged Israel in: ... 1Ki
12:30; 2Ki 21:11; 2Ch 33:9|
- - Great prevalence of, in Israel: ... Isa 2:8; Jer
2:28; Eze 8:10|
- - A virtual forsaking of God: ... Jer 2:9-13|
- - The good kings of Judah endeavoured to destroy: ...
2Ch 15:16; 34:7|
- - Captivity of Israel on account of: ... 2Ki 17:6-18|
- - Captivity of Judah on account of: ... 2Ki 17:19-23|
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