Torrey's Topical Index

Idolatry

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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