Deuteronomy 12:3

Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

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And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

In Context

2You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

4Do not so to the Lord your God.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:13Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

Deuteronomy 7:5But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

1 Kings 15:13And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

2 Kings 23:14The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

2 Chronicles 14:3For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

2 Chronicles 31:1Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 12:2-5

Relics of Idolatry to Be Destroyed. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye… Read the whole commentary →

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