Exodus 34:13
For you must tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles,
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But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
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Numbers 33:52you must drive out everyone living in the land, destroy all their carved images and metal idols, and tear down all their pagan temples.
Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn the idols of their god. Don't desire the silver and gold that covers them. Don't take it or otherwise it will be a trap for you because the Lord your God detests anything to do with idols.
Deuteronomy 16:21Don't ever set up a wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,
Judges 2:2I also told you not to make any agreements with the people living in the land and to tear down their altars. But you refused to obey what I said. Why did you do this?
2 Kings 10:27They smashed the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and turned it into a toilet, which it still is to this day.
2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred stone pillars to pieces, chopped down the Asherah poles, and covered the places with human bones.
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 →