Deuteronomy 16:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.
  • 2 Chr 33:3 : 3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.
  • 1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 16:22
    83%

    22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Deut 12:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

    3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    77%

    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

  • Lev 26:1
    76%

    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:17
    75%

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    74%

    23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Lev 18:21
    73%

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Deut 7:5
    73%

    5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    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:

  • Exod 20:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

    26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

    8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Exod 30:1
    73%

    1 And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

  • Deut 12:31
    73%

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Mic 5:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

    14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

    6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

  • Jer 17:2
    72%

    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • Deut 22:9
    72%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Exod 23:32
    72%

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Judg 6:26
    72%

    26 Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

  • Ps 81:9
    72%

    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 16:20
    72%

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 4:23
    72%

    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Exod 23:24
    71%

    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Exod 20:23
    71%

    23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

  • Deut 20:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

    19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 17:1
    71%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Judg 2:2
    71%

    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • Jer 11:17
    71%

    17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

    7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

  • Deut 18:9
    70%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Josh 22:19
    70%

    19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.