Deuteronomy 7:5

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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.

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  • Exod 23:24 : 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.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 2 You 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. 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.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You 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.
  • Deut 9:21 : 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
  • Deut 16:22 : 22 You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.
  • Judg 6:25-26 : 25 Gideon Destroys the Altar That night the LORD said to him,“Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole. 26 Then 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.”
  • 2 Kgs 23:6-9 : 6 He 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. 7 He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah. 8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate. 9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) 10 The king ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 11 He removed from the entrance to the LORD’s temple the statues of horses that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god.(They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. 12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley. 13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom. 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Exhortation 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.
  • Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.

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  • Exod 34:13
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    13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Deut 12:2-4
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Deut 7:23-25
    3 verses
    82%

    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

    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.

  • Num 33:52
    81%

    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.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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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.

  • Exod 23:24
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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.

  • Deut 7:4
    78%

    4for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    77%

    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 Chr 34:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    77%

    3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

  • Deut 7:2
    77%

    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!

  • 2 Kgs 23:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 26:30
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 37:19
    76%

    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.

  • Ezek 6:4
    75%

    4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

  • Hos 10:2
    75%

    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.

  • Judg 2:2
    75%

    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?

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    75%

    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.

  • Mic 1:7
    75%

    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.”

  • Isa 27:9
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 6:6
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 12:31
    74%

    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!

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 5:4
    74%

    4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Isa 57:5
    74%

    5you who inflame your lusts among the oaks and under every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 20:17
    74%

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Ps 74:6
    73%

    6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

  • Deut 16:21
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 13:15
    73%

    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.

  • Judg 6:26
    73%

    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.”

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    73%

    21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

  • Jer 22:7
    73%

    7I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

  • Deut 4:25
    73%

    25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,

  • 2 Kgs 10:26
    73%

    26They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

  • Isa 17:8
    73%

    8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

  • Josh 7:15
    72%

    15The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

  • Jer 43:13
    72%

    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.”’”

  • Deut 9:3
    72%

    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.