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Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Images were of two descriptions: they were cut or hewn out of a block of stone, and fashioned into some
likeness
.
Dagon
, the
god
of the
Philistines
, had face,
head
, and hands, being, as is supposed, half
fish
and half
man
(
1 Sam. 5:3-4
3
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
4
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. (1 Samuel 5:3‑4)
). The
gods
made of a tree were also doubtless wrought, at least rudely, in the form of some living or imaginary creature. But there were also MOLTEN IMAGES, as the
golden
calf
, which was first cast and then shaped more exactly with the graving tool (
Ex. 32:4
4
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. (Exodus 32:4)
; compare
Acts 17:29
29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. (Acts 17:29)
). Yet
Israel
had been expressly forbidden to make “any graven
image
”
to
bow
down to or to
worship
(
Ex. 20:4-5
4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:4‑5)
). The Gentile also, led on by
Satan
, made his own god, and worshipped it, turning his
eyes
away from God’s “
eternal
power
and divinity” which are manifest in His
works
(
Rom. 1:20-23
20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:20‑23)
).
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