How To Use Graven image In A Sentence

The prohibition against graven images of God in the twentieth chapter of "Exodus" becomes an indictment of representation that targets the very foundations of modernity: thou shalt not make of God an object.
So two things that these women don't appreciate, that kind of invasiveness and the graven image thing. Cherie Louise Turner: Photography that Looks at Us: An Interview with Curator Sandra S. Phillips about Exposed at SFMOMA
They were horrible times — times in which there were monks and friars and graven images, which people kissed and worshipped and sang pennillion to. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?
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thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
Thou hast made a graven image and Jeroboam-like wouldst have everyone else bow down before thy calf.
Americans can make any graven image they wish to make, and bow down to whatever god or idol they wish.
The religious justification derives from the ban on graven images, common to the jealous God of the Old Testament and to Allah.
If an image is automatically an idol, why did God tell Israel to have graven images of cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant?
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
Such icons, or graven images, are held in awe by the followers of the respective faiths.