idols

¶ Moreouer the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idoles, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Iudah, and in Ierusalem, did Iosiah put away, that he might performe the wordes of the lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteOr, Teraphim.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 20.27. deut. 18.11.

And when they had stripped him, they tooke his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to cary tidings vnto their idoles, and to the people.

For all the gods of the people are idoles: but the LORD made the heauens.

1611 marginal noteLeu. 19.4.

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophesie of Oded the prophet, he tooke courage, and put away the abominable idoles out of all the lande of Iudah and Beniamin, and out of the cities which hee had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the Altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHeb. abominations.

And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and serued groues and idols: and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem for this their trespasse.

And when he had broken downe the altars and the groues, and had beaten the grauen images into pouder, and cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, hee returned to Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to make pouder.

For all the gods of the nations are idoles: but the LORD made the heauens.

Confounded be all they that serue grauen images, that boast themselues of idoles: worship him all yee gods.

1611 marginal noteExod.20.4. Leuit. 26 1. Deut.5.8. Heb. 1.6.

And they serued their idoles: which were a snare vnto them.

And shed innocent blood, euen the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whome they sacrificed vnto the idoles of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.