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What is a graven image?



    
    

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
The phrase "graven image" comes from the King James Version and is first found in Exodus 20:4 in the second of the Ten Commandments. The Hebrew word translated "graven image" means literally "an id...

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My picture Jack Gutknecht Supporter ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
According to NAVE'S TOPICAL BIBLE, "graven images" are objects of "iDOLATRY" are listed as:

Sun, moon, and stars, Deut. 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3, 5; 2 Chr. 33:3, 5; Job 31:26-28; Jer. 7:17-20; 8:2; Ezek. 8:15, 16;; Zeph. 1:5; Acts 7:42.--The host of heaven was worshipped on the house-top. (2 Kings 23:12; Jeremiah 19:3; 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5)" 
Images of angels, Col. 2:18; animals, Rom. 1:23.
Gods of Egypt, Ex. 12:12.
Golden calf, Ex. 32:4.
Brazen serpent, 2 Kings 18:4.
Net and drag, Hab. 1:16.
Pictures, Num. 33:52; Isa. 2:16.
Pictures on walls, Ezek. 8:10.
Earrings, Gen. 35:4

The modern objects of idolatry are less gross than the ancient, but are nonetheless idols. Whatever of wealth or honor or pleasure is loved and sought before God and righteousness become an object of idolatry. 

classic.net.bible.org

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