Thematic Bible: What should be done to idols
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » What should be done to idols
But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn their images with fire.
see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.
"Then put away," said he, "the strange gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the LORD God of Israel."
Keep all that I command thee this day, and behold: I will cast out before thee the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabiters of the land whither thou goest lest it be cause of ruin among you. But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down their groves,
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the fields of Moab by Jordan nigh unto Jericho, saying, "Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'When ye are come over Jordan into the land of Canaan, see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their imaginations and all their images of metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills:
See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree. Overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and hew down the images of their gods, and bring the names of them to nought out of that place.
And the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "I brought you out of Egypt and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers. And I said that I would never break my covenant with you, but ye should have made no covenant with the inhabiters of this land, ye should have broken down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye this done?