Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. (Romans 1:23-25

All who make idols are nothing and the things they delight in do not profit…  (Isaiah 44:9-20)

Tell them this: "These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens." (Jeremiah 10:11)

Since you saw no form when the LORD [Yahweh] spoke to you at Horeb … do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure… (Deuteronomy 4:15-19)

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? (Isaiah 40:18; 25; 46:5)

Ancient Egypt had by tradition a great variety of gods and what today can be labeled as spirits and divine forces… In total they were over 2,000…

Thus the local wild fauna of birds, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, frogs, plus cattle, dogs, cats and other domesticated animals were considered to be the living images of a particular god or goddess…

But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places… the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth; the people of Cuth made Nergal; the people of Hamath made Ashima; the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. (II Kings 17:29-31)

It opens with an announcement by Amun-Ra: he will father a female king. The mother-to-be is the beautiful Ahmose, queen of Thutmose I. Ahmose, sleeping alone in her palace bedroom, is woken by the perfume of Amun-Ra… He tells Ahmose that she is to bear a daughter who will rule Egypt. He then holds out the ankh, the sign of life. (Tyldesley 2014)

…the newly-crowned king was recognized as both the son of Ra and the living Horus…

The New Kingdom monarchs Hatshepsut and Amenhotep III (Eighteenth Dynasty) and Rameses II (Nineteenth Dynasty) … claimed Amun-Ra as their father…
Amenhotep III and Rameses II … started to believe their own propaganda. In Nubia … both were worshipped as living gods.

So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it into a mold, and cast an image of a calf… (Exodus 32:1-8)

While scientists have unearthed a few examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 BC. Last week, though, a team of Harvard archaeologists announced they had done just that.

While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor… (Numbers 25:1-3)

…choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:2, 15)

And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them… (Deuteronomy 4:19; 17:2-5; II Kings 23:5; Job 31:26-28; Jeremiah 17:15-27)

…the great goddess of the Ionian Greeks is shown flanked by animals, bedecked with jewels and images, wearing a tall hat and with multiple breast-like appendages.

Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods. And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be scorned, and she will be deprived of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her. (Acts 19:26-27)

The LORD … will shrivel all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down … all the coasts and islands of the nations. (Zephaniah 2:11)