Deuteronomy 12:2
Overturn all the places where the nations, which you will possess, worshipped their gods on lofty mountains, and on hills, and under every leafy tree.
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Exodus 34:12Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin.
Numbers 33:51“Instruct the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you will have crossed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:25Their graven images, you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or gold from which they have been made. And you shall not take for yourself anything from these, lest you offend, because this is an abomination to the Lord your God.
1 Kings 14:23For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.
2 Kings 17:10And they made for themselves statues and sacred groves, on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
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 →