Deuteronomy 12:4

Do not so to the Lord your God.

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Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

In Context

3Their 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.

5But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

Deuteronomy 16:21Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

Joshua 22:15And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,

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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