Exodus 34:13

for you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down its Asherim;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

In Context

12take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst;

14for you do not bow yourselves to another god—for YHWH, whose Name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:52then you have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, indeed, you destroy all their molten images, and you lay waste [to] all their high places,

Deuteronomy 7:25You burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you do not desire the silver and gold on them, nor have you taken [it] for yourself, lest you are snared by it, for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH;

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,

Judges 2:2and says, “I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you for all time; and you make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land—you break down their altars; and you have not listened to My voice—what [is] this you have done?

2 Kings 10:27and break down the standing-pillar of Ba‘al, and break down the house of Ba‘al, and appoint it for a latrine to this day.

2 Kings 23:14And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place with 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 →

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