Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,
New American Standard Bible
But thus you shall do to them:
King James Version
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
International Standard Version
This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire,
A Conservative Version
But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
American Standard Version
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
Amplified
But this is how you shall deal with them: you shall tear down their altars and smash to pieces their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah), and burn their carved or sculpted images in the fire.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire.
Julia Smith Translation
But thus shall ye do to them; their altars ye shall destroy, and their pillars ye shall break in pieces, and their statues ye shall cut down, and their carved things ye shall burn in are.
King James 2000
But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their idol poles, and burn their graven images with fire.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.
Modern King James verseion
But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall destroy their altars and break down their images, and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn their images with fire.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
The Emphasized Bible
Verily, thus, shall ye do unto them: Their altars, shall ye tear down, And their pillars, shall ye break in pieces, - And their sacred stems, shall ye hew down, And their carved images, a shall ye burn up in the fire.
Webster
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
World English Bible
But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Youngs Literal Translation
'But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;
Themes
Altars » For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed
Awakenings and religious reforms » Iconoclasm accompanying reforms » Idols to be destroyed
the Canaanites » Israel commanded » To destroy all vestiges of their idolatry
Carving » Idols manufactured by
Groves » Of canaanites, to be destroyed
Iconoclasm » Idols to be destroyed
Idolatry » What should be done to idols
Interlinear
Nathats
Shabar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
4
because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them
Exodus 34:13
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Deuteronomy 7:25
You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods
Exodus 32:20
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.
Leviticus 26:1
“Do not make idols for yourselves,
Deuteronomy 9:21
I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Deuteronomy 16:22
and do not set up a sacred pillar; the Lord your God hates them.
Judges 6:25-26
On that very night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old. Then tear down the altar of Baal
2 Kings 23:6-14
He brought out the Asherah pole