1. Exodus 20:4 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is a carved image?

Exodus 20:4 (ESV)

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

A carved image represents a god or power (nature) or ancestor governing life, fortune and misfortune, or fate in general.