Deuteronomy 12:4

You do not do so to your God YHWH;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

In Context

3and you have broken down their altars, and shattered their standing pillars, and you burn their Asherim with fire, and you cut down carved images of their gods, and have destroyed their name out of that place.

5rather—that you seek after the place which your God YHWH chooses out of all your tribes to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and you have entered there,

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23and you do not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for they have done all these, and I am wearied with them.

Deuteronomy 16:21You do not plant an Asherah of any trees for yourself near the altar of your God YHWH, which you make for yourself,

Joshua 22:15And they come to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and speak with them, saying,

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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