Deuteronomy 12:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

And burn

And destroy

Revelation 13:1

General references

Numbers 33:52

2 Chronicles 28:4

Bible References

And burn

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—

I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you
and demolish your cities.

And destroy

“Pay strict attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

The sorrows of those who take another god
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.

For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.

On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. He had 10 horns and seven heads. On his horns were 10 diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names.

General references

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.