Deuteronomy 12:3

And ye must tear down their altars And break in pieces their pillars, And, their sacred stems, must ye consume with fire, And the carved images of their gods, must ye fell to the ground,—And destroy their name out of that place.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

In Context

2Ye must utterly destroy, all the places where the nations whom ye are dispossessing have served their gods,—Upon the high mountains And upon the hills, And under every green tree;

4Ye must not do thus unto Yahweh your God;

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Cross References

Exodus 23:13And, in all that I have said unto thee, shalt thou take heed to thyself,—and the name of other gods, shalt thou not mention, it shall not be heard upon thy mouth.

Deuteronomy 7:5Verily, thus, shall ye do unto them: Their altars, shall ye tear down, And their pillars, shall ye break in pieces,—And their sacred stems, shall ye hew down, And their carved images, shall ye burn up in the fire.

1 Kings 15:13Moreover also, even Maachah his mother, he removed from being queen, because she had made a monstrous thing to the Sacred Stem,—and Asa cut down her monstrous thing and burned it in the Kidron ravine.

2 Kings 23:14and he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stems,—and filled their place with human bones:

2 Chronicles 14:3and took away the foreign altars, and the high places,—and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut in twain the Sacred Stems;

2 Chronicles 31:1Now, when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went forth unto the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars—and cut down the Sacred Stems—and threw down the high places and the altars, out of all Judah and Benjamin—and throughout Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had made an end,—then all the sons of Israel returned every man to his own possession, unto their own cities.

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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