Deuteronomy 16:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
  • 2 Chr 33:3 : 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
  • 1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 16:22
    83%

    22 Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

  • Exod 34:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

    14 For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • Deut 12:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

    3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    77%

    10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Lev 26:1
    76%

    1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:17
    75%

    17 You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    74%

    23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are all around you;

  • Lev 18:21
    73%

    21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

    8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

  • Deut 7:5
    73%

    5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

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

  • Exod 20:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

    26 Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 You shall have no other gods before me.

    8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Exod 30:1
    73%

    1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of acacia wood you shall make it.

  • Deut 12:31
    73%

    31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Mic 5:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 Your carved images also will I cut off, and your sacred pillars from the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

    14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.

  • Deut 27:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.

    6 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God:

  • Jer 17:2
    72%

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

  • Deut 22:9
    72%

    9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.

  • Exod 23:32
    72%

    32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Judg 6:26
    72%

    26 And build an altar unto the LORD your 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 you shall cut down.

  • Ps 81:9
    72%

    9 There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 16:20
    72%

    20 That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Deut 4:23
    72%

    23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • Exod 23:24
    71%

    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

  • Exod 20:23
    71%

    23 You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

  • Deut 20:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

    19 When you besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

  • Deut 4:28
    71%

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

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7 That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:

  • Deut 17:1
    71%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Judg 2:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, 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 broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • Jer 11:17
    71%

    17 For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    70%

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

  • Deut 18:9
    70%

    9 When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Josh 22:19
    70%

    19 If the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, by building for yourselves an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God.