Exodus 34:13
But their altars shall ye destroy, and their statues shall ye break, and their groves shall ye cut down.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
In Context
14For thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord whose name is Watchful, is a watchful God.
Cross References
Numbers 33:52Then shall ye drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ye shall destroy all their statues, and all their molten images shall ye destroy, and devastate all their high places.
Deuteronomy 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is on them, so that thou wouldst take it unto thyself, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant unto thyself a grove, any tree, near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make unto thyself.
Judges 2:2But ye for your part shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; their altars shall ye throw down; but ye have not obeyed my voice: what is this ye have done?
2 Kings 10:27And they broke down the statue of Ba'al, and broke down the house of Ba'al, and made it a common sewer unto this day.
2 Kings 23:14And he broke in pieces the standing images, and cut down the Asherah-groves, and filled their places with the bones of 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 →