Deuteronomy 12:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and stroy the names of them out of that place.

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  • Judg 2:2 : 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
  • Num 33:52 : 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:
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my li.
  • Exod 23:13 : 13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
  • Rev 13:1 : 1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But thus shall ye al with them; ye shall stroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
  • 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
  • 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 34:13
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    13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

  • Deut 7:5
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    5But thus shall ye al with them; ye shall stroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Deut 12:2
    88%

    2Ye shall utterly stroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and unr every green tree:

  • Num 33:52
    84%

    52Then 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:

  • Exod 23:24
    82%

    24Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

  • Deut 12:4
    81%

    4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:24-25
    2 verses
    78%

    24And he shall liver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt stroy their name from unr heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have stroyed them.

    25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not sire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    78%

    13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

    14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    78%

    3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    77%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14-15
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    14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

  • Lev 26:30
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    30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

  • Deut 12:29-31
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    76%

    29When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeest them, and dwellest in their land;

    30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be stroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

    31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

  • 2 Chr 34:4
    76%

    4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

  • Ezek 6:6
    75%

    6In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

  • Ezek 6:4
    75%

    4And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

  • Isa 37:19
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    19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Hos 10:2
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    2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    75%

    12And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
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    10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

    11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

    12For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    74%

    18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
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    7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, stroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

    16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

  • Deut 20:17-18
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    74%

    17But thou shalt utterly stroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath command thee:

    18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:2
    73%

    2And when the LORD thy God shall liver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly stroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

  • Isa 30:22
    73%

    22Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

  • Isa 27:9
    73%

    9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

  • Deut 16:21
    73%

    21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

  • Judg 6:26
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    26And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

  • Jer 43:13
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    13He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
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    6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

  • Mic 1:7
    72%

    7And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

  • Jer 17:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

    3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

  • Deut 9:3
    72%

    3Unrstand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall stroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and stroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

  • Ps 74:6
    72%

    6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Num 31:10
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    10And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.