There are ten commandments that God gave the Israelites from Mount Sinai as the beginning of The Law. The second commandment condemns the carving of images of anything in Heaven, on earth, or in the sea under the earth. What exactly does that mean? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer in her video, What Is A Graven Image?
Exodus 25:17-22
Leviticus 16
Numbers 21:4-9
John 3:14
Exodus 20:2-3
1 Corinthians 8:4-6
Psalms 136:2-3
Deuteronomy 10:17
What Is A Graven Image?
Graven (Carved) Images In The Law
4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 20:4-6
15 Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 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, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.
Deuteronomy 4:15-20
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