Exodus 34:13

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 23:24 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Judg 6:25 : 25 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
  • 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?
  • 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 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 34:3-4 : 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 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. 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 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: 3 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.
  • Deut 16:21 : 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.

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  • Deut 12:2-4
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    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:

    3 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.

    4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 7:4-5
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    4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

    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.

  • Exod 23:24
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    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.

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    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.

  • Num 33:52
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    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:

  • 2 Chr 14:3
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    3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

  • Deut 16:21-22
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    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.

    22 Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14-15
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    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.

  • Deut 7:25
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    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.

  • Lev 26:30
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Judg 2:2
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    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?

  • 2 Chr 34:4
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    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 6:4
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    4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    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.

  • Lev 26:1
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    1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Exod 34:14-15
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    14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

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

  • 2 Chr 34:7
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    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.

  • Isa 17:8
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    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

  • Ezek 6:6
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    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.

  • Isa 27:9
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    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.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 "You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

  • Deut 29:17
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    17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • Judg 6:26
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    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."

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

  • Isa 30:22
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    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!"

  • Deut 4:28
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    28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Deut 6:14
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    14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

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

  • Jer 17:2
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    2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

  • Isa 37:19
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
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    23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • Deut 4:23
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    23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

  • Ps 74:6
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    6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Jer 43:13
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    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 17:35
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    35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

  • Isa 57:5
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    5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Deut 20:18
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    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.

  • Exod 22:20
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    20 "He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.

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    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.

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    14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

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    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.