Deuteronomy 4:25-28

Idolatry Forbidden

²⁵ "When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, _l if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and _m by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, ²⁶ I _n call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord _o will scatter you among the peoples, _p and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ And _q there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, _r that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:16
   Beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 9:18
   Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.
   2 Kings 17:17
   And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 30:18 - 19
   I declare to you today, that you shall surely p...
   Deuteronomy 31:28
   Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes an...
   Deuteronomy 32:1
   Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let ...
   Isaiah 1:2
   Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the...
   Jeremiah 2:12
   Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be...
   Jeremiah 6:19
   Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster u...
   Micah 6:2
   Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord...
   
4. Cross References
   Leviticus 26:33
   And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 28:62
   Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 28:36
   The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
   Deuteronomy 28:64
   And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
   Jeremiah 16:13
   Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.
   
7. Cross References
   Psalms 115:4 - 7
   Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
   Psalms 135:15 - 17
   The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
   Isaiah 44:9
   All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
   Isaiah 46:7
   They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.