Deuteronomy 16:22
and you do not raise up any standing image for yourself which your God YHWH is hating.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:4You do not make a carved image for yourself, or any likeness which [is] in the heavens above, or which [is] in the earth beneath, or which [is] in the waters under the earth.
Leviticus 26:1“You do not make idols for yourselves; and you do not set up carved image or standing image for yourselves; and you do not put a stone of imagery in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] your God YHWH.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;
Deuteronomy 12:31You do not do so to your God YHWH; for every abomination that YHWH has hated they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters with fire for their gods.
Jeremiah 44:4And I send to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Please do not do this abomination that I have hated—
Revelation 2:6but this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:19-22
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any… Read the whole commentary →