Exodus 23:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

Shalt not

Exodus 20:5

Do after

Overthrow

General references

Numbers 33:52

Bible References

Shalt not

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Do after

Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.

but mingled with the nations
and adopted their ways.

Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.

Overthrow

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.

Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

General references

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.