Bible Cross References
molten images
Exodus 32:4
And he received [the gold] from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This [is] your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"
Exodus 32:8
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This [is] your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!' "
1 Kings 12:28
Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!"
Psalm 106:18-20
18
A fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
19
They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped the molded image.
20
Thus they changed their glory Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
Isaiah 44:9
Those who make an image, all of them [are] useless, And their precious things shall not profit; They [are] their own witnesses; They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 44:10
Who would form a god or mold an image [That] profits him nothing?
a grove
2 Kings 17:10
They set up for themselves [sacred] pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 14:15
"For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the LORD to anger.
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built for themselves high places, [sacred] pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 15:13
Also he removed Maachah his grandmother from [being] queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and burned [it] by the Brook Kidron.
1 Kings 16:33
And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
worshipped
Deuteronomy 4:19
"And [take heed,] lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and [when] you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Jeremiah 8:2
"They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.
Baal
2 Kings 10:18-28
18
Then Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, Jehu will serve him much.
19
"Now therefore, call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu acted deceptively, with the intent of destroying the worshipers of Baal.
20
And Jehu said, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed [it.]
21
Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. So they came into the temple of Baal, and the temple of Baal was full from one end to the other.
22
And he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out vestments for all the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out vestments for them.
23
Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rechab went into the temple of Baal, and said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that no servants of the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal."
24
So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, "[If] any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, [whoever lets him escape, it shall be] his life for the life of the other."
25
Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in [and] kill them; let no one come out!" And they killed them with the edge of the sword; then the guards and the officers threw [them] out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
26
And they brought the [sacred] pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them.
27
Then they broke down the [sacred] pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day.
28
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel.
2 Kings 11:18
And all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal, and tore it down. They thoroughly broke in pieces its altars and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 16:31
And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
1 Kings 22:53
for he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.