Deuteronomy 12:4

But you shall not do the same to the Lord your God.

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In The King James Version

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

In Context

3Scatter their altars and break their statues. Burn their sacred groves with fire and crush their idols. Abolish their names from those places.

5Instead, you shall approach the place which the Lord your God will choose among all your tribes, so that he may set his name there, and may dwell in that place.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23Do not be willing to walk by the ordinances of the nations, which I will expel before you. For they have done all these things, and so I abominate them.

Deuteronomy 16:21You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;

Joshua 22:15And they went to the sons of Reuben, and of Gad, and of the one half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they 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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