Deuteronomy 12:3

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

² You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods -- on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ³ 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. ⁴ You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

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

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

Judges 2:2

but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.' But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

Zechariah 13:2

And also on that day," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Exodus 23:13

"Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods -- do not let them be heard on your lips.

Psalm 16:4

their troubles multiply, they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 18:4

He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord."

2 Chronicles 31:1

When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

Jeremiah 17:2

Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!"

Micah 5:14

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.