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.

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Bible References

And burn

1 Kings 15:13
And thereto he put down Maacah his mother from bearing rule, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 18:4
He put away the hill altars, and brake the images and cut down the groves, and all to brake the brazen serpent that Moses made - for unto those days the children of Israel did burn sacrifice to it, and called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 23:14
and brake the images and cut down the groves and filled the places with the bones of men.
2 Chronicles 14:3
and took away the altars of strangers and the hill altars, and brake the Images and cut down the groves,
2 Chronicles 19:3
Neverthelater, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."
2 Chronicles 34:3
Insomuch that the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of hill altars, groves, carved Images, and Images of metal:
Jeremiah 17:2
that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields.
Micah 5:14
Thy groves will I pluck up by the roots, and break down thy cities.

And destroy

Exodus 23:13
And in all things that I have said unto you, be circumspect. And make no rehearsal of the names of strange gods, neither let any man hear them out of your mouths.
Psalm 16:4
But they that run after another god shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips.
Hosea 2:17
For I will take away those names of Baal from her mouth, yea she shall never remember their names any more.
Zechariah 13:2
And then, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will destroy the names of Idols out of the land: so that they shall no more be put in remembrance. As for the false prophets also and the unclean spirit, I shall take them out of the land:
Revelation 13:1
And I stood on the sea sand. And I saw a beast rise out of the sea, having seven heads, and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head, the name of blasphemy.

General references

Numbers 33:52
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:
2 Chronicles 28:4
And he offered burnt cense in hill altars and on mountains and under every green tree.