Deuteronomy 12:4

Not so shall you do before the Lord your God;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

In Context

3And you shall lay their altars in ruin, break their statues, burn their groves with fire, cut the images of their idols in pieces, and blot out their names from that place.

5But, to the place which the Lord your God will choose that His Shekinah may dwell there, unto the house of His Shekinah you shall seek,

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23You shall not walk in the laws of the peoples whom I drive away from before you; for they have committed all these thin, and My Word hath abhorred them.

Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove, nor any tree beside the altar of the Lord thy God that thou makest thee,

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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