Verse 3

And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Riv ned deres altere, knus deres steinstøtter, brenn deres Asjera-påler med ild, hugg ned deres gudebilder og utslett navnene deres fra disse stedene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dere skal rive ned deres altrene, bryte deres stener, brenne deres lunder med ild, hogge ned de utskårne bildene av deres guder, og utslette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• Norsk King James

  Og dere skal kaste ned deres altere, og knuse deres søyler, og brenne deres asherah-trær med ild; og dere skal hugge ned de graverte bildene av deres guder, og utslette navnene deres fra det stedet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres støttepilarer, brenne deres Asjerastaver i ild, hugge ned deres utskårne gudebilder og utslette navnet deres fra disse stedene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Riv ned deres altere, knus deres steinstøtter, brenn deres Asjera-stolper i ilden, hugg ned bildene av deres guder og utslett navnene deres fra det stedet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere skal rive ned deres altrer, knuse deres steinstøtter, brenne deres lunder med ild, hugge ned de utskårne bilder av deres guder og utslette navnene deres fra det stedet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres søyler og brenne deres hellige lunder med ild; dere skal hugge ned de utskårne bildene av deres guder og utslette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Dere skal rive ned deres altrer, knuse deres steinstøtter, brenne deres lunder med ild, hugge ned de utskårne bilder av deres guder og utslette navnene deres fra det stedet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres hellige steinsøyler, brenne deres Asherapæler med ild og hugge i stykker deres gudebilder. Slik skal dere slette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Riv ned altrene deres, knus steinstøttene deres, brenn Asjera-pålene deres med ild, hogg ned billedstøttene av deres guder og utslett navnene deres fra disse stedene.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og I skulle nedbryde deres Altere, og sønderbryde deres Støtter, og opbrænde deres Lunde med Ild, og afhugge deres Guders udskaarne Billeder, og ødelægge deres Navn af det samme Sted.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and stroy the names of them out of that place.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dere skal rive ned alterene deres, bryte ned steinsøylene deres, brenne deres lundene med ild; dere skal hogge ned de utskårne bildene av deres guder, og utslette navnene deres fra det stedet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres steinstøtter, brenne deres Ašerastatuer med ild og hugge ned de utskårne bildene av deres guder; og dere skal utslette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres steinstøtter, brenne deres billedstøtter med ild, hogge ned deres gudebilder og utslette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dere skal rive ned deres altere, knuse deres steinsøyler, brenne deres Asjera-helligdommer med ild, hogge ned deres utskårne gudebilder, og utslette deres navn fra disse stedene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Deres altere og steinsøyler skal brytes ned, deres hellige trær brennes med ild, og bildene av deres guder skal hogges ned; dere skal fjerne navnene deres fra det stedet.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Ouerthrowe their alters and breake their pylers and burne their groues with fyre and hewdowne the ymages off theyr goddes, and brynge the names of them to noughte out of that place.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And ouerthrowe their altares, and breake downe their pilers, and burne their groues with fyre, and hewe downe the ymages of their goddes, & brynge the names of them to naught out of the same place.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Also ye shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, & burne their groues with fire: and ye shall hew downe ye grauen images of their gods, and abolish their names out of that place.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  You shall ouerthrowe their aulters, and breake their pillers, and burne their groues with fire, and you shall hewe downe the grauen images of the gods that they haue, and bryng the names of them to naught out of that place.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and ye have broken down their altars, and shivered their standing pillars, and their shrines ye burn with fire, and graven images of their gods ye cut down, and have destroyed their name out of that place.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

• 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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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.

Referenced Verses

• Judg 2:2 : 2 And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars: but you have not obeyed 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 carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:
• Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also, I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land.
• Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names on my lips.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.
• Jer 17:2 : 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
• Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
• Mic 5:14 : 14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.
• Rev 13:1 : 1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy.
• Deut 7:5 : 5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
• 1 Kgs 15:13 : 13 Also, he removed Maachah his mother from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the brook Kidron.
• 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the images, cut down the groves, and broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan.
• 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
• 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.
• 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless, there are good things found in you, in that you have removed the groves out of the land and have prepared 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 the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly 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 still 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, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images.