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
Overthrow
General references
Bible References
Shalt not
Exodus 20:5
You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Do after
Leviticus 18:3
You are not to do what you used to do in the land of Egypt where you lived. You are not to do what Canaan does, where I'm about to bring you, so that you live according to their statutes.
Deuteronomy 12:30
after they have been destroyed in your sight, be careful not to be ensnared as they were. Otherwise, you will seek their gods and ask yourselves, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'
2 Chronicles 33:2
But he practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by behaving detestably, as did the nations whom the LORD expelled in front of the Israelis.
Psalm 101:3
I will not even think about doing anything lawless; I hate to do evil deeds; I will have none of it.
Psalm 106:35
Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.
Ezekiel 16:47
It wasn't just that you lived like they did and committed their detestable practices, but in just a little while your behavior led you to become more corrupt than they were!"
Overthrow
Exodus 32:20
He took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, and ground it into powder. He scattered it on the water and made the Israelis drink it.
Exodus 34:13
Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles
Numbers 33:52
they are to drive out all the inhabitants of the land and destroy all their idols and their molten images. You are to demolish all their high places,
Deuteronomy 7:5
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,
Deuteronomy 12:3
Tear down their altars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods to erase their memory from that place."
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 the twelfth year of his reign, he began to remove the high places, Asherim, carved images, and cast images from Judah and Jerusalem.
General references
Numbers 33:52
they are to drive out all the inhabitants of the land and destroy all their idols and their molten images. You are to demolish all their high places,