Exodus 34:13
Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
In Context
14For you must worship no other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Cross References
Numbers 33:52then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast figures and demolish all their high places.
Deuteronomy 7:25You will burn the carved figures of their gods—do not covet the silver or the gold that covers them and take it for yourself, because if you do, you will become trapped by it—for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21You must not set up for yourselves an Asherah, any sort of pole, beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you will make for yourself.
Judges 2:2You must make no covenant with those who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice. What is this that you have done?
2 Kings 10:27Then they broke down the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the house of Baal and made it a latrine, which it is to this day.
2 Kings 23:14He broke the stone pillars into pieces and cut down the Asherah poles and he filled those places with the bones of human beings.
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 →