Bible Dictionary: Vanity: Idolatry Is

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2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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Psalm 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
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Isaiah 44:9,10
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
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Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
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Strong's Hebrew

7723. shav -- emptiness, vanity
... guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive,
objective; also adverbially, in vain) -- false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity. ...
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Library

Wide Scope of the Word Idolatry.
... In it also is vanity, since its whole system is vain. In it is mendacity, for its
whole substance is false. Thus it comes to pass, that in idolatry all crimes ...
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Of Schoolmasters and their Difficulties.
... the names of gods to be pronounced," [227] and this name [228] to be conferred on
vanity. ... Inquire whether he who catechizes about idols commit idolatry. ...
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Whether the Cause of Idolatry was on the Part of Man?
... On the contrary, It is written (Wis.14:14): "By the vanity of men they," ie idols,
"came into the world.". I answer that, Idolatry had a twofold cause. ...
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Of the Observance of Days Connected with Idolatry.
... Chapter XIII."Of the Observance of Days Connected with Idolatry. ... from superstition,
why do you, estranged as you are from all their vanity, participate in ...
/.../tertullian/on idolatry/chapter xiii of the observance of.htm

The Axe at the Root --A Testimony against Puseyite Idolatry
... human mind is always dashing itself, and in one shape or another idolatry is the ...
laugheth at them, he treadeth on them as being less than nothing and vanity. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 12 1866/the axe at the roota.htm

On Idolatry
... idols, because a graven image is a teacher of lies and vanity; (Jeremiah 2 ... nay even
justifications, for sins, particularly for the sin of idolatry, and because ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 23 on idolatry.htm

Popular Renown and Inquisitiveness are Condemned in the Sacred ...
... We may apply to this the precept about fleeing from idolatry. ... The book begins thus:
"Vanity of the vain, saith the Preacher, vanity of the vain; all is vanity. ...
/.../chapter 21 name renown and.htm

A Kingdom's Epitaph
... mission of the prophets changed forgetfulness of God's 'statutes' into 'rejection'
of them, and made idolatry self-conscious ... 'They followed vanity, and became ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/a kingdoms epitaph.htm

Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish.
... Many of these chiefs were also probably more easily persuaded of the vanity
of idolatry on account of their superior education. ...
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The Uproar in Ephesus.
... than truth, but because the former accords better with the vanity and corrupt
propensities of mankind. While the votaries of idolatry and superstition have ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxiii the uproar in.htm

Subtopics

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Vanity: Every Man Has

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