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geneva@Exodus:20:5 @ Thou shalt not (note:)By this outward gesture, all forms of service and worship to idols is forbidden.(:note) bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a And will have revenge on those who condemn my honour. jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

geneva@Exodus:23:24 @ Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt (note:)God commands his own to not only not worship idols, but to destroy them.(:note) utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

geneva@Exodus:34:13 @ But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their (note:)Which pleasant places they chose for their idols.(:note) groves:

geneva@Exodus:34:17 @ Thou shalt make thee no (note:)As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: in this is condemned all types idols, no matter what they are made of.(:note) molten gods.

geneva@Leviticus:18:21 @ And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to (note:)Which was an idol of the Ammonites, to whom they burned and sacrificed their children, (2Ki_23:10). This seemed to be the chief and principal of all idols: and as the Jews write, was of a great stature, and hollow within, having seven places or chambers within him: one was to receive meal that was offered: another turtle doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth, a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an ox: the seventh a child. This idols face was like a calf: his hands were ever stretched out to receive gifts: his priests were called Chemarims, (2Ki_23:5; Hos_10:5; Zep_1:4).(:note) Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Numbers:33:4 @ For the Egyptians buried all [their] firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their (note:)Either meaning their idols, or their men of authority.(:note) gods also the LORD executed judgments.

geneva@Deuteronomy:3:24 @ O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can (note:)He speaks according to the common and corrupt speech of those who attribute power to idols that only belongs to God.(:note) do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

geneva@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore (note:)And so put difference between him and idols.(:note) that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:3 @ And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their (note:)In which they sacrificed to their idols.(:note) groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

geneva@Deuteronomy:12:31 @ Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have (note:)They held nothing too dear to offer to their idols.(:note) burnt in the fire to their gods.

geneva@Joshua:23:7 @ That ye come not among these nations, these that (note:)And not yet subdued.(:note) remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, Let not the judges admit an oath which any shall swear by their idols. nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

geneva@Judges:2:11 @ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served (note:)That is, all manner of idols.(:note) Baalim:

geneva@Judges:2:13 @ And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and (note:)These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians.(:note) Ashtaroth.

geneva@Judges:3:19 @ But he himself turned again from the (note:)Or, as some read from the places of idols.(:note) quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep Till all be departed. silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

geneva@Judges:11:24 @ Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the (note:)For we should believe and obey God more than you your idols.(:note) LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

geneva@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (note:)He would serve both God and idols.(:note) ephod, and By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand by it all manner of things and instruments belonging to those who sought an answer at God's hands, as in (Jdg_18:5-6). teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

geneva@Judges:18:17 @ And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the (note:)Superstition blinded them so that they thought God's power was in the idols, and that they would have good success because of them, though they took them away by robbery and violence.(:note) graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.

geneva@Judges:18:24 @ And he said, Ye have taken away my (note:)This declares the opinion the idolaters have of their idols.(:note) gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

geneva@Judges:18:27 @ And they took [the (note:)Meaning, the idols, as in (Jdg_18:18).(:note) things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

geneva@Judges:18:30 @ And the children of Dan set up the (note:)Thus instead of giving glory to God, they attributed the victory to their idols, and honoured them therefore.(:note) graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the That is, till the Ark was taken, (1Sa_5:1). captivity of the land.

geneva@1Samuel:31:9 @ And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to (note:)In token of victory and triumph.(:note) publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people.

geneva@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the (note:)The children of God called idols blind and lame guides: therefore the Jebusites meant that they should prove that their gods were neither blind nor lame.(:note) blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

geneva@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, [that are] hated of David's soul, [he shall be chief and captain]. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not (note:)The idols should no longer enter into that place.(:note) come into the house.

geneva@2Samuel:7:23 @ And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for (note:)O Israel.(:note) you great things and terrible, for And inheritance, which is Israel. thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the From the Egyptians and their idols. nations and their gods?

geneva@1Kings:11:11 @ Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as (note:)That you have forsaken me and worshipped idols.(:note) this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

geneva@1Kings:18:27 @ And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be (note:)He mocks their beastly madness, who think that by any instance or suit, the dead and vile idols can help their worshippers in their necessity.(:note) awaked.

geneva@2Kings:5:18 @ In this thing the LORD (note:)He feels his conscience is wounded by being present at idols service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall to idolatry: for as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.(:note) pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

geneva@2Kings:14:3 @ And he did [that which was] (note:)In the beginning of his reign he seemed to have an outward show of godliness, but later he became an idolater and worshipped the idols of the Idumeans.(:note) right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

geneva@2Kings:17:33 @ They (note:)That is, they had a certain knowledge of God, and feared him because of the punishment, but they continued to be idolaters as do the papists who worship both God and idols: but this is not to fear God, as appears in (2Ki_17:34).(:note) feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

geneva@2Kings:18:35 @ Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the (note:)This is an execrable blasphemy against the true God, to make him equal with the idols of other nations: therefore God sharply punished him.(:note) LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

geneva@2Kings:19:16 @ LORD, (note:)Show by effect that you will not allow your Name to be blasphemed.(:note) bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the By this title he discerns God from all idols and false gods. living God.

geneva@2Kings:23:5 @ And he put down the (note:)Or Chemarims, meaning the priests of Baal who were called Chemarims either because they wore black garments or else were smoked with burning incense to idols.(:note) idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

geneva@2Kings:23:6 @ And he brought out the (note:)He removed the grove which idolaters for devotion had planted near the temple, contrary to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_16:21), or as some read, the similitude of a grove which was hung in the temple.(:note) grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the Both in contempt of the idols and reproach of them who had worshipped them in their lives. graves of the children of the people.

geneva@2Kings:23:9 @ Nevertheless the priests of the high places (note:)Because they who had forsaken the Lord to serve idols, were not fit to minister in the service of the Lord for the instruction of others.(:note) came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

geneva@2Kings:23:13 @ And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the (note:)That was the mount of olives, so called because it was full of idols.(:note) mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

geneva@1Chronicles:16:26 @ For all the gods of the people [are] (note:)His strong faith appears in this, though all the world would follow idols, yet he would cleave to the living God.(:note) idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

geneva@2Chronicles:11:15 @ And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the (note:)Meaning idols, (Isa_44:15).(:note) devils, and for the calves which he had made.

geneva@2Chronicles:24:14 @ And when they had finished [it], they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made (note:)For the wicked kings, his predecessors and Athaliah had destroyed the vessels of the temple, or turned them to the use of their idols.(:note) vessels for the house of the LORD, [even] vessels to minister, and to offer [withal], and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:2 @ For (note:)He was an idolater like them.(:note) he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for As the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are as patrons (as were these Baalim) so have they others who are inferior and represent the great idols. Baalim.

geneva@2Chronicles:28:23 @ For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which (note:)As he falsely supposed.(:note) smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may Thus the wicked measure God's favour by prosperity and adversity: for if idolaters prosper, they make their idols gods, not considering that God often punishes them whom he loves and gives his enemies good success for a time whom afterward he will destroy. help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

geneva@2Chronicles:29:5 @ And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth (note:)Meaning, all the idols, altar groves and whatever was occupied in their service and with which the temple was polluted.(:note) the filthiness out of the holy [place].

geneva@2Chronicles:32:12 @ Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his (note:)Thus the wicked put no difference between true religion and false, God and idols: for Hezekiah only destroyed idolatry and replaced it with true religion. Thus the papists slander the servants of God: for when they destroy idolatry, they say that they abolish religion.(:note) altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

geneva@2Chronicles:32:14 @ Who [was there] among all the (note:)This is his blasphemy that he will compare the living God to vile idols.(:note) gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

geneva@2Chronicles:34:7 @ And when he had (note:)This great zeal of this godly king the Holy Spirit sets forth as an example and pattern to other kings and rulers, to teach them what God requires of them.(:note) broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

geneva@Ezra:4:1 @ Now when (note:)Meaning, the inhabitants of Samaria, whom the king of Assyria had placed in the place of the ten tribes, (2Ki_17:24, 2Ki_19:37). They professed God but worshipped idols and therefore were the greatest enemies to the true servants of God.(:note) the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;