“The 'Second' Commandment: No Idle, Idol Worship” | Exodus 20:4-6 Bible Study ✞-word Puzzle | 3.6.24

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  1. 4. Both hateful rejection of the LORD and (much more so) loving, loyal obedience to the LORD have lasting repercussions for the ___ to come (Ex 20:5-6).
  2. 5. Israel was repeatedly told not to bow down to or ___ idols and foreign gods (Ex 20:5; 22:23-24; Ps 81:9-10).
  3. 7. As a loving husband would rightly be ___ if his wife cheated on him, so the LORD is a ____ God (Ex 20:5, Ex 34:13-14; Dt 4:23-24; Eze 16:32-38; cf. Is 9:7)
  4. 9. Those who reject God’s commandments ___ God (Ex 20:5).
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  1. 1. In pagan thinking, manipulating idols of gods would therefore manipulate the gods themselves, obligating the gods to show them favor. Israel wrongly exemplified such pagan thinking when they brought the ___ of the LORD into battle (1 Sam 4:2-11).
  2. 2. (Two words) Though they came to the altar and said, “I do”, though Israel promised to be a faithful wife to the LORD (Ex 24:3-4, 7), they made and worshipped an idol of the “gods… who brought [them] up out of Egypt” (Ex 32:7-8) when they made the ___ ___.
  3. 3. In order to get what they wanted from a god, people would make, bow down to, worship, and sacrifice to ____.
  4. 4. In this context, idols were commonly made of carved wood that was overlaid with silver or ___ (Ex 20:22-23). Yet, idolatry does not have to involve any physical object at all (cf. Col 3:5).
  5. 6. Worshipping and sacrificing to pagan idols often included ungodly ___ and temple prostitution (Eze 16:32-38; 2 Ki 23:5-7).
  6. 8. Those who keep God’s commandments ___ God (Ex 20:6; Dt 10:12-13; Jn 14:15; 1 Jn 5:3).