Deuteronomy 12:4

You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

In Context

3Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.

5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

Joshua 22:15Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, 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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