For example, Jehovah said to Israel: “You must not make valueless gods for yourselves, and you must not set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and you must not put a stone as a showpiece in your land in order to bow down toward it. ”
كَثِيرًا مَا يَسْتَعْمِلُ ٱلْكِتَابُ ٱلْمُقَدَّسُ عِبَارَةَ « عَدِيمَةُ ٱلنَّفْعِ » فِي وَصْفِ ٱلْآلِهَةِ ٱلْبَاطِلَةِ .‏