Verse 4

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
  • Exod 20:23 : 23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
  • Exod 34:17 : 17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
  • Exod 20:3-5 : 3 You are to have no other gods but me. 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.
  • Ps 96:5 : 5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
  • Ps 115:4-7 : 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; 7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Hag 2:18 : 18 And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.