Exodus 34:13

Covenant Stipulations

¹² Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabiters of the land whither thou goest lest it be cause of ruin among you. ¹³ But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down their groves, ¹⁴ for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called jealous, because he is a jealous God:

Carved Image

Carved Images

Destroy Their Altars

Asherah Poles

Break Down Their Altars

Tear Down Their Altars

Exodus 23:24

see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.

2 Kings 18:4

He put away the hill altars, and brake the images and cut down the groves, and all to brake the brazen serpent that Moses made - for unto those days the children of Israel did burn sacrifice to it, and called it Nehushtan.

Judges 6:25

And the same night the LORD said unto him, "Take an ox of thy father's and another of seven years old, and destroy the altar of Baal that belongeth unto thy father, and cut down the grove that is about it,

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus ye shall deal with them: overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn their images with fire.

Judges 2:2

but ye should have made no covenant with the inhabiters of this land, ye should have broken down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye this done?

2 Kings 23:14

and brake the images and cut down the groves and filled the places with the bones of men.

2 Chronicles 31:1

And when they had finished all this, then all Israel that were found in cities of Judah went out and brake the Images and cut down the groves, and all to break the hill altars and the other altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had made an end of them. And afterward all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession in their own cities.

2 Chronicles 34:3-4

Insomuch that the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of hill altars, groves, carved Images, and Images of metal:

Deuteronomy 7:25-26

The images of their gods thou shalt burn with fire, and see that thou covet not the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 12:2-3

See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shalt plant no grove, of whatsoever trees it be, nigh unto the altar of the LORD thy God which thou shalt make thee.