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The English words "graven image" or "idol" in translations of the Bible may represent any of several Hebrew words. The word is pesel (פֶסֶל), translated in modern Hebrew as “sculpture” [13] indicating something carved or hewn. In subsequent passages, pesel was applied to images
Images of the Ten Commandments have long been contested symbols for the relationship of religion to national law. [ 184 ] In the 1950s and 1960s the Fraternal Order of Eagles placed possibly thousands of Ten Commandments displays in courthouses and school rooms, including many stone monuments on courthouse property. [ 185 ]
Graven Image, a 1923 novel by Margaret Widdemer "Graven Image" a short story by E. Hoffmann Price from the 1967 short story collection Strange Gateways; Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, a 2010 essay collection by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer; Graven Image, a 2011 novella by Charlie Williams
Regarding graven images, they expound that this command addresses idolatry that in ancient times expressed itself in the worship of such things as the "sun, moon, stars, trees, bulls, eagles, and serpents" as well as "emperors and kings".
Religious images in Christian theology have a role within the liturgical and devotional life of adherents of certain Christian denominations. The use of religious images has often been a contentious issue in Christian history. Concern over idolatry is the driving force behind the various traditions of aniconism in Christianity.
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of 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; thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the ...
The Bible describes how the Israelites until the Babylonian captivity repeatedly violated the first commandment's demand of exclusive worship. Not only did common people substitute Canaanite gods and worship for that of the Lord, polytheism and worship of foreign gods became official in both the northern and southern kingdoms despite repeated warnings from the prophets of God.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" under the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain " under the Augustinian division used by Roman Catholics and Lutherans