Bible Verses About Obelisks
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obelisks, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,340 votes, led by Leviticus 26:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Obelisks
Leviticus 26:1145 votes
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
Jeremiah 43:13130 votes
He shall break also the images of Beth–shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:3104 votes
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deuteronomy 16:22103 votes
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
Isaiah 19:19-2096 votes
In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Exodus 20:494 votes
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:
Exodus 23:2491 votes
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Deuteronomy 7:580 votes
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
2 Kings 18:472 votes
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 10:2645 votes
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
Isaiah 19:1944 votes
In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Exodus 20:4-530 votes
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:
Acts 17:22-2329 votes
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
2 Chronicles 14:328 votes
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 31:128 votes
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
Acts 17:2328 votes
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Exodus 34:1325 votes
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Deuteronomy 4:1621 votes
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Ezekiel 6:416 votes
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Acts 17:2916 votes
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.
Romans 1:22-2316 votes
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Deuteronomy 4:15-1914 votes
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
1 Kings 14:2314 votes
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 5:813 votes
Thou shalt not make 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 waters beneath the earth:
2 Kings 3:212 votes
And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
What does the Bible say about obelisks?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 26:1 on the subject of obelisks. Across 1,340 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 43:13, Deuteronomy 12:3, Deuteronomy 16:22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.