Exodus 20:3-6 (BBE)
3 You are to have no other gods but me.
4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

Idolatry is the worship of idols, images, or anything that is not God, the worship of false gods and the excessive attachment to anything with more respect or love bordering on adoration.
God commands us not to offer our love, adoration and worship to anyone or anything besides Him, we are forbidden to be idolaters. Vs 4.
We shouldn’t have any other gods before God, is there any god that has proven his power and godhead as God did in delivering the Israelis from the Egyptians, dividing the Red Sea, bringing water out of the rock, quails into the desert, manna from heaven to feed them, and the pillar of cloud to direct, enlighten, and shield them?
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness, the likeness of a beast, the likeness of any winged fowl, the likeness of a fish and the likeness of anything that creeps—As the word signifies, an idol can be hewn, carved, graven, of any kind of image, either of wood, stone, or metal, on which the axe, the chisel, or the graving tool has been used.
Christians are patterned after the Lord and are to walk, act, and speak as He does. Deuteronomy 6:14, says we should not seek after false gods. But we do, we’ve made our careers, fashion, jobs and even families (children or spouses) into idols we seek after and worship.
Most people are more acquainted with their self-made idols than they are with the Most High God. We accord power to set up idols that can’t help us in any way, whilst disregarding the one who is constantly seeking a relationship with us.
The ancient kingdoms were mostly impure and idolatrous people, just like the world right now, chasing after religion, fads, and cultures they think will help them attain paradise. According to Acts 4:14, salvation is only in and through Christ.
Isaiah 44:6-23 outlines the folly of idolatry and describes a graven image. The bible helps us understand that idolatry extends beyond the worship of images and false gods. It is a matter of the heart, associated with pride, self-centeredness, greed, and gluttony, according to Philippians 3:19, and love for material possessions according to Matthew 6:24.
Anything or anybody that takes the place of God, even seemingly good things can become idols.
It is a grave disservice to God to idolize anything or anybody, this may incur God’s wrath, on you and the idol. God will not be eclipsed by anything from self, security, approval, work, wealth, relationships, and anything that takes His place of God on your life, for He loves us passionately, Vs 5.
There is no god besides God, it is, therefore, foolish to trust in other deities who cannot save as states in Isaiah 43:11; 44:6.
Anything or anyone can become an idol in our lives because our hearts are idol factories, we are continually tempted to make temporal things into ultimate things, and so must guard against idolatry in our lives.
The Lord commands us not to craft images of anything in heaven or earth for worship because the Lord is a jealous God according to Exodus 34:14. The Lord has no physical form and cannot be contained in one.
Shalom