Deuteronomy 12:3

World English Bible (2000)

and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

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  • Judg 2:2 : 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
  • Num 33:52 : 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
  • Exod 23:13 : 13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.
  • Rev 13:1 : 1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
  • 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
  • 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

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  • Exod 34:13
    90%

    13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

  • Deut 7:5
    88%

    5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

  • Deut 12:2
    88%

    2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Num 33:52
    84%

    52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

  • Exod 23:24
    82%

    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

  • Deut 12:4
    81%

    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 7:24-25
    2 verses
    78%

    24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

    25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    78%

    13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

    14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    78%

    3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    77%

    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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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    77%

    14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Judg 2:2
    77%

    2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

  • Lev 26:30
    77%

    30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

  • Deut 12:29-31
    3 verses
    76%

    29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

    30 take heed to yourself that you not be ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise."

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

  • 2 Chr 34:4
    76%

    4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

  • Ezek 6:6
    75%

    6 In all your dwelling places 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 incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

  • Ezek 6:4
    75%

    4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

  • Isa 37:19
    75%

    19 and 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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    2 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    75%

    12 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    75%

    10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

    11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

    12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    74%

    18 and 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
    74%

    7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

    16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • Deut 20:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

    18 that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 7:2
    73%

    2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

  • Isa 30:22
    73%

    22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"

  • Isa 27:9
    73%

    9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

  • Deut 16:21
    73%

    21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.

  • Judg 6:26
    73%

    26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."

  • Jer 43:13
    73%

    13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    73%

    19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

  • Mic 1:7
    72%

    7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."

  • Jer 17:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

    3 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Deut 9:3
    72%

    3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.

  • Ps 74:6
    72%

    6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

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

  • Num 31:10
    72%

    10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.