Deuteronomy 12:3
You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.
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- Judg 2:2 : 2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?
- Num 33:52 : 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
- Zech 13:2 : 2 And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
- Ps 16:4 : 4 their troubles multiply; they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.
- Exod 23:13 : 13 “Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.
- Jer 17:2 : 2 Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
- Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”
- Mic 5:14 : 14 I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
- Rev 13:1 : 1 The Two Beasts Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.
- Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
- 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.
- 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
- 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
- 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
- 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.
- 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.
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13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
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5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
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2You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods– on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
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52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
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24“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
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4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
- Deut 7:24-252 verses78%
24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.
25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
- Mic 5:13-142 verses78%
13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
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3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
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1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.
- 2 Kgs 23:14-152 verses77%
14He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.
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2but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?
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30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
- Deut 12:29-313 verses76%
29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
30After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say,“How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same.”
31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
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4He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
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6In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.
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4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
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19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
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2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.
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12The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.
- 2 Kgs 17:10-123 verses75%
10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.
12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.
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18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
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7he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- Deut 13:15-162 verses74%
15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.
16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.
- Deut 20:17-182 verses74%
17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.
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2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
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22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
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9So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
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21Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.
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26Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”
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13He will demolish the sacred pillars in the temple of the sun in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.”’”
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19You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”
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17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
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6He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.
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7All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces; all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. I will make a waste heap of all her images. Since she gathered the metal as a prostitute collects her wages, the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.”
- Jer 17:2-32 verses72%
2Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
3and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.
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3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.
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6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.
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28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
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10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.