Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall you⌃ do to them; you⌃ shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

In Context

4For he will draw away your son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.

6For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:24You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them: you shall not do according to their works, but shall utterly destroy them, and break to pieces their pillars.

Exodus 34:13You⌃ shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and you⌃ shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods you⌃ shall burn with fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25You⌃ shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet their silver, neither shall you take to yourself gold from them, lest you should offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 12:2You⌃ shall utterly destroy all the places in which they served their gods, whose land you⌃ inherit, on the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.

Deuteronomy 16:22You shall not set up for yourself a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

2 Kings 10:26And they brought out the pillar of Baal, and burnt it.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:2-12

A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto… Read the whole commentary →

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