Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
In Context
12Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:
14Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous, he is a jealous God.
Cross References
Numbers 33:52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,
Deuteronomy 7:25Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:
Judges 2:2On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?
2 Kings 10:27And broke it in pieces. They destroyed also the temple of Baal, and made a jakes in its place unto this day.
2 Kings 23:14And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
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 →