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173 Idolatrypower, whether it is believed to have animate existence (as a humanor animal god or "saint") or whether it is inanimate (as a force orobject of nature or a government or any other organization) . Itusually involves some form, ceremony or ritual . It exacts devotion .However, idolatry can be self-worship, worship of one's family orancestry, or any other human or even an animal without any maderepresentation . It is sometimes claimed that what is worshiped is notthe image itself, but what is represented by the image . This is relativeworship . All idolatry, whether relative or actual, is false worship .Snare of Satan and Abomination(Detestable) to GodDeut . 7 :16, 25 "And thou shaltconsume all the peoples that Jehovahthy God shall deliver untothee ; thine eye shall not pitythem : neither shalt thou servetheir gods ; for that will be asnare unto thee . The gravenimages of their gods shall ye burnwith fire : thou shalt not covetthe silver or the gold that is onthem, nor take it unto thee, lestthou be snared therein ; for it isan abomination to Jehovah thyGod."Ps . 106 :36 "And served theiridols, which became a snare untothem ."Deut . 32 :17 "They sacrificedunto demons, which were no God,to gods that they knew not ."1 Cor . 10 :20, 21 "The thingswhich the nations sacrifice theysacrifice to demons, and not toGod, and I do not want you tobecome sharers with the demons .You cannot be drinking the cupof Jehovah and the cup of demons."Ex . 32 :7, 8, 10 "And Jehovahspake unto Moses, Go, get theedown ; for thy people, that thoubroughtest up out of the land ofEgypt, have corrupted themselves: they have turned asidequickly out of the way which Icommanded them : they havemade them a molten calf, andhave worshipped it, and havesacrificed unto it . . . . now thereforelet me alone, that my wrathmay wax hot against them, andthat I may consume them ."Images Have No Life or Powerto Help in ThemselvesJer . 10 :3-5 "For the customs ofthe peoples are vanity ; for onecutteth a tree out of the forest,the work of the hands of theworkman with the axe . They deckit with silver and with gold ; theyfasten it with nails and withhammers, that it move not . Theyare like a palm-tree, of turnedwork, and speak not : they mustneeds be borne, because they cannotgo ."Hab. 2 :18, 19 "What profiteththe graven image, that the makerthereof hath graven it ; the moltenimage, even the teacher oflies, that he that fashioneth itsform trusteth therein, to makedumb idols? Woe unto him thatsaith to the wood, Awake ; to thedumb stone, Arise! Shall thisteach? Behold, it is overlaid withgold and silver, and there is nobreath at all in the midst of it ."Jehovah God Forbade Nation ofIsrael to Practice IdolatryEx . 20:4, 5 "Thou shalt notmake unto thee a graven image,nor any likeness of any thingthat is in heaven above, or thatis in the earth beneath, or thatis in the water under the earth :thou shalt not bow down thyselfunto them, nor serve them ."2 Ki . 17 :35 "With whom Jehovahhad made a covenant, andcharged them, saying, Ye shallnot fear other gods, nor bowyourselves to them, nor servethem, nor sacrifice to them."