Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Groves » Idols were worshipped in
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.
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Iconoclasm » Idols to be destroyed
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?
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Instead tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim.
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Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.
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Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
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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.
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Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say: 'Babylon has been captured. Bel has been put to shame. Marduk has been shattered! Her images have been put to shame and her idols have been shattered.'
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Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God. Do not bring an abomination into your house. You must utterly detest it and you must utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
These are the statutes and the judgments you should carefully observe in the land Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. 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. Tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles with fire. Cut down the carved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. read more.
Do not worship Jehovah your God with such things.
Do not worship Jehovah your God with such things.
Idolatry » What should be done to idols
Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.
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Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
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Remove the foreign gods you have. He demanded: Pledge your loyalty to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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I will force out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. You must do what I command you today. Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going. It will become a snare in your midst. Instead tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim.
Jehovah said to Moses on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho, Tell the Israelites: You will cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan. 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.
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. Tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles with fire. Cut down the carved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.
An angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: I led you out of Egypt and brought you to the land about which I swore to your fathers that I would never break my covenant with you. 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?
Mountain » Used for idolatrous worship
After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed. When you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them. They will be acting like prophets:
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They built places of worship for false gods. They put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains! They burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars (storax) and the strong tree, because it has good shade. Your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
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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.
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During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.
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Mountains » Often selected as places for idolatrous worship
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.
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Jehoram made illegal places of worship in the hills of Judah. This caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. So he led Judah astray.
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