Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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.