Deuteronomy 12:3

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

² You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree: ³ 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. ⁴ Do not so to the Lord your God.

Blot Out Their Name

Carved Image

Carved Images

Graven Image

Graven Images

Asherah Poles

Break Down Their Altars

Tear Down Their Altars

Numbers 33:52

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

Judges 2:2

And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

Zechariah 13:2

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

Exodus 23:13

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

Psalm 16:4

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

1 Kings 15:13

And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

2 Kings 18:4

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead

2 Chronicles 14:3

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

2 Chronicles 19:3

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17:2

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

Hosea 2:17

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

Micah 5:14

I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

Revelation 13:1

And he took his place on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads unholy names.