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Want to know what the Bible says about Idolatry? Here are 483 Bible verses about Idolatry from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ezekiel 23:41 NIV
You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.
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Jonah 1:5 NIV
All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
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Judges 16:24 NIV
When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,
“Our god has delivered our enemy
    into our hands,
the one who laid waste our land
    and multiplied our slain.”
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Daniel 5:4 NIV
As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
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Jeremiah 41:5 NIV
eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the Lord.
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Job 31:27 NIV
so that my heart was secretly enticed
    and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
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2 Kings 23:11 NIV
He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
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Amos 4:4-5 NIV
4 “Go to Bethel and sin;
    go to Gilgal and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three years.
5 Burn leavened bread as a thank offering
    and brag about your freewill offerings
boast about them, you Israelites,
    for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.
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1 Kings 12:32 NIV
He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
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Ezekiel 18:15 NIV
“He does not eat at the mountain shrines
    or look to the idols of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
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