Deuteronomy 16:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:1 : 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 20:4 : 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:
  • Deut 12:31 : 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.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.
  • Zech 8:17 : 17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
  • Rev 2:6 : 6 But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.
  • Rev 2:15 : 15 And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 26:1
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 16:21
    83%

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

  • Exod 20:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    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;

  • Deut 5:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    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:

    9 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;

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Exod 34:17
    79%

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Exod 23:24
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Ps 81:9
    77%

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

  • Deut 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

    16 So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Deut 4:23
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 19:4
    76%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    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 6:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

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

    15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Exod 23:32
    76%

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 12:31
    75%

    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.

  • Exod 20:23
    75%

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

  • Mic 5:13
    75%

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

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    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 4:28
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 17:1
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 27:15
    73%

    15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    73%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Josh 23:7
    72%

    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 4:25
    72%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    72%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    72%

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

  • Num 33:52
    72%

    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

  • Exod 20:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    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 20:18
    72%

    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.

  • Deut 14:3
    72%

    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Jer 25:6
    72%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Deut 18:9
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 7:5
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 27:5
    71%

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

  • Exod 22:20
    71%

    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • Deut 29:17
    71%

    17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Lev 26:30
    71%

    30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.