Deuteronomy 16:21
Examples 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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- 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.
- 2 Chr 33:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
- 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
- Exod 34:13 : 13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
- 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 The LORD will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the LORD by making Asherah poles.
- 1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he did more to anger the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
- 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.
- Judg 3:7 : 7 Othniel: A Model Leader The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight. They forgot the LORD their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
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22You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.
- Exod 34:13-153 verses79%
13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
14For you must not worship any other god, for 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 their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
- Deut 12:2-43 verses78%
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.
3You 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.
4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
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10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God.
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17You must not make yourselves molten gods.
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23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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14You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
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21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!
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8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.
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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.
- Exod 20:3-42 verses73%
3“You shall have no other gods before me.
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
- Exod 20:25-262 verses73%
25If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.
26And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
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7You must not have any other gods besides me.
8You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
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1The Altar of Incense“You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.
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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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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.
- Deut 27:5-62 verses72%
5Then you must build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones– do not use an iron tool on them.
6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.
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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
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9Illustrations of the Principle of Purity You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.
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32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Deut 7:25-262 verses72%
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.
26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
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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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9There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.
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20You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.
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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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23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
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18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.
19If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
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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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7or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them!
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1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.
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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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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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17For though I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, planted you in the land, I now decree that disaster will come on you because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.”
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29Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.
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7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
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9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.