Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
In Context
14Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.
Cross References
Numbers 33:52destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Break their monuments, and shatter their statues, and lay waste to every exalted thing,
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.
Deuteronomy 16:21You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;
Judges 2:2but only if you would not form a pact with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, you should overturn their altars. Yet you were not willing to listen to my voice. Why have you done this?
2 Kings 10:27and crushed it. They also tore down the temple of Baal, and they made it into a latrine, even to this day.
2 Kings 23:14And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:11-18
A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1491.) 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to… Read the whole commentary →