In two of the three passages in which "picture" is used in the Authorized Version it denotes idolatrous representations, either independent images or more usually stones "portrayed," i.e. sculptured in low relief, or engraved and colored. (Ezekiel 23:14) Layard, Nin. and Rob. ii. 306, 308. Moveable pictures, in the modern sense, were doubtless unknown to the Jews. The "pictures of silver" of (Proverbs 25:11) were probably well surfaces or cornices with carvings.
Picture
Most mentions of pictures in the King James Bible are warnings. Israel was told to “destroy all their pictures” and molten images in the land they were entering, and to make no idols or carved stones to bow down to. Pictures here are things people might worship, which is why they are cleared away. One verse, though, is gentle: “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” There the image is a lovely setting for a kind word. Proverbs 25:11 is the one to read slowly, and Numbers 33:52 shows the sterner side.
4 verses
Leviticus
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Numbers
Numbers 33:52
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Proverbs
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Isaiah
Isaiah 2:16
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884