Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Ye shall
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Bible References
Ye shall
Exodus 23:24
Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
Deuteronomy 7:5
Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Judges 2:2
You will make no covenant with people of this land. You will throw down their altars. You have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this?
Judges 6:25
That night Jehovah told Gideon: Take your father's bull and another seven year old bull, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, that is beside it.
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places. He broke the stone pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah poles. The brass snake that Moses had made was crushed to powder at his command, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
2 Kings 23:14
Josiah crushed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles dedicated to Asherah. And he filled their places with human bones.
2 Chronicles 31:1
When this ended, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. They destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.
2 Chronicles 34:3
It was the eighth year of his reign. He was still a boy when he dedicated his life to service of the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king he purged Judah and Jerusalem by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols.
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Numbers 33:52
As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.
Deuteronomy 16:21
When you build the altar for Jehovah your God, never plant beside it any tree dedicated to the goddess Asherah.