Exodus 34:13
For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver,—And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 33:52then shall ye dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and shall destroy all their figured stones,—all their molten images, also shall ye destroy, and all their high places, shall ye lay waste.
Deuteronomy 7:25The carved images of their gods, shalt thou consume with fire,—thou shalt not covet the silver and gold upon them to take unto thee, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for the abomination of Yahweh thy God, it is;
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee, as a sacred stem, any tree,—near unto the altar of Yahweh thy God which thou shalt make for thyself;
Judges 2:2But, ye, must not solemnise a covenant with the inhabitants of this land, Their altars, must ye tear down,—But ye have not hearkened unto my voice, what is this ye have done?
2 Kings 10:27and they brake down the pillars of Baal,—and brake down the house of Baal, and appointed it for a sewer-house—until this day.
2 Kings 23:14and he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stems,—and filled their place with human bones:
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 →