Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Holman Bible
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
International Standard Version
Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles
A Conservative Version
But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim,
American Standard Version
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;
Amplified
But you shall tear down and destroy their [pagan] altars, smash in pieces their [sacred] pillars (obelisks, images) and cut down their
Bible in Basic English
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
Julia Smith Translation
For their altars thou shalt lay waste, and their pillars thou shalt break, and their images thou shalt cut of
King James 2000
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their idol poles:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles.
Modern King James verseion
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their sacred poles.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down their groves,
NET Bible
Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
New Heart English Bible
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
The Emphasized Bible
For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver, - And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.
Webster
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.
World English Bible
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
Youngs Literal Translation
for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;
Themes
Alliances » Political » With idolaters forbidden
Altars » For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed
Awakenings and religious reforms » Iconoclasm accompanying reforms » Idols to be destroyed
Covenant » Who not to make a covenant with
Groves » Of canaanites, to be destroyed
Iconoclasm » Idols to be destroyed
Idolatry » What should be done to idols
Idolatry » Everything connected with, should be destroyed
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » In groves
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 34:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Covenant Stipulations
12 Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee; 13 but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. 14 For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah Jealous is his name is a jealous God;
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly destroy them, and utterly shatter their statues.
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke in pieces the serpent of brass that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Judges 6:25
That night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Ba'al which your father has, and cut down the Ashe'rah that is beside it;
Deuteronomy 7:5
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.
Judges 2:2
and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my command. What is this you have done?
2 Kings 23:14
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
2 Chronicles 31:1
And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.
2 Chronicles 34:3-4
And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold that is on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;
Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt not plant thyself an Asherah of any wood near unto the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.