42 Bible Verses about Obelisks
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Do not make idols or set up statues, stone pillars, or carved stones to worship. I am Jehovah your God!
Never set up a sacred stone. These are things Jehovah your God hates.
All the men of Shechem and Bethmillo got together and went to the sacred oak tree at Shechem, where they made Abimelech king.
The peoples hearts are deceitful. They must suffer for their sins. Jehovah will break down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.
The people of Israel were like a grapevine that used to produce grapes. The more prosperous they were, the more altars they built. The more productive their land was, the more beautiful they made the sacred stone pillars they worship.
I will remove your graven images and your sacred pillars from you. You will no longer worship the work of your hands.
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.
They erected pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree.
Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.
Instead tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim.
Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.
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.
Though he was not as bad as his father or his mother Jezebel; he sinned against Jehovah. He removed the image his father had made for the worship of Baal.
They removed the image of Asherah from the house of Baal and burned it.
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.
Josiah crushed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles dedicated to Asherah. And he filled their places with human bones.
Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had under his head. He set it up as a marker and poured oil on top of it.
This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.
Laban also said to Jacob: Here is the pile of stones. Here is the marker that I have set up between you and me.
This pile of stones and this marker stand as witnesses that I will not go past the pile of stones to harm you, and that you will not go past the pile of stones or marker to harm me.
So Jacob set up a memorial, a stone marker, to mark the place where God had spoken with him. He poured a wine offering and olive oil on it.
Jacob set up a stone as a marker for her grave. The same marker is at Rachel's grave today.
When that time comes, there will be an altar to Jehovah in the middle of the land of Egypt and a stone pillar dedicated to him at the Egyptian border.
Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
Moses wrote down all Jehovah's words. Early the next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He erected twelve sacred stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
At Beth Shemesh he will break the monuments in Egypt and burn down the temples of Egypt's gods.'
They are like scarecrows in cucumber fields. They cannot speak. They must be carried, for they cannot walk! Do not fear them! For they can do no harm and they can do no good.
Jehovah went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way during the day. He went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel at night.
The pillar of cloud was always in front of the people during the day, and the pillar of fire at night.
they will tell it to the people who live in this land. These people have already heard that you, Jehovah, are with us, that you appear in plain sight when your cloud stops over us, and that you go before us in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.
Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.
Just before dawn, Jehovah looked down from the column of fire and smoke and threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.
The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
After Moses entered, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the door of the Tent. Jehovah would speak to Moses from the cloud.
The people would bow down as soon they saw the pillar of cloud at the door of the Tent.
I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven. He was clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was upon his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
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.
He got rid of the altars of foreign gods. He broke down the sacred stones. He cut down the poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.
