Deuteronomy 16:21

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You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
  • 2 Chr 33:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole, and he did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 16:22
    83%

    22And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

  • Exod 34:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

    14For you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

  • Deut 12:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    3Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.

    4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    77%

    10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

  • Lev 26:1
    76%

    1Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:17
    75%

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    74%

    23They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

  • Lev 18:21
    73%

    21Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

  • Deut 7:5
    73%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3You shall have no other gods before Me.

    4You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.

  • Exod 20:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25If you make an altar of stones for Me, do not build it with stones that have been worked with tools; if you use your tool on it, you will defile it.

    26And do not go up to My altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7You shall have no other gods before Me.

    8You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

  • Exod 30:1
    73%

    1You shall make an altar for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

  • Deut 12:31
    73%

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Mic 5:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

    14In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.

  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.

    6Use uncut stones to build the altar of the LORD your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • Jer 17:2
    72%

    2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

  • Deut 22:9
    72%

    9Do not plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard, or the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the fruit of the vineyard, will be forfeited.

  • Exod 23:32
    72%

    32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Judg 6:26
    72%

    26Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, laying the stones in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.

  • Ps 81:9
    72%

    9Hear, my people, and I will warn you—if you would only listen to me, Israel!

  • Deut 16:20
    72%

    20Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 4:23
    72%

    23Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and not to make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

  • Exod 23:24
    71%

    24Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.

  • Exod 20:23
    71%

    23You shall not make gods of silver to be alongside Me, nor shall you make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Deut 20:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

    19When you lay siege to a city for a long time to capture it, do not destroy its trees by cutting them down with an axe, for you may eat from them. Do not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a human that it should face the siege with you?

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7Do not associate with these nations that remain among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, swear by them, serve them, or bow down to them.

  • Deut 17:1
    71%

    1Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep with a defect or any flaw, for that would be detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Judg 2:2
    71%

    2But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Jer 11:17
    71%

    17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

    7He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

  • Deut 18:9
    70%

    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

  • Josh 22:19
    70%

    19If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then come over to the land the LORD possesses, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and settle among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of the LORD our God.