TSK · Genesis 35:2

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had twelve sons:

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.

But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

You must not have any other gods besides me.

You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

Joshua told all the people,“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘In the distant past your ancestors lived beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped other gods,

If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.

Joshua said,“Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the LORD God of Israel.”

So Naomi said,“Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law back home!”

Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.

For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the LORD made the heavens.

Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!

I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd, not only in Ephesus but in practically all of the province of Asia, by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all.

And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.