Second Commandment

American  

noun

1. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any 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 thyself to them nor serve them”: second of the Ten Commandments.

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Example Sentences

“As a people of faith our adherence is not to the Second Amendment. It’s to the Second Commandment, which is ’Love your neighbor as yourself,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

But contradicting the famous ban on graven images in the Second Commandment, in this painting God explicitly demands the creation of a work of art.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2017

Then she thought of the words in the Second Commandment: "And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children."

From The Reason Why by Glyn, Elinor

With your permission I shall return to this subject, not of Images, but of the Second Commandment, in reply to Mr. Gatty's Queries on the division at present adopted by the Jews, &c.

From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

But praying, as the Second Commandment teaches, is to call upon God in every need.

From Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Bente, F. (Friedrich)