Exodus 34:13

for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

In Context

12take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

14for ye do not bow yourselves to another god — for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:52then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

Deuteronomy 7:25'The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken [it] to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it [is];

Deuteronomy 16:21'Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou makest for thyself,

Judges 2:2and saith, 'I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye — ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land — their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice — what [is] this ye have done?

2 Kings 10:27and break down the standing-pillar of Baal, and break down the house of Baal, and appoint it for a draught-house unto this day.

2 Kings 23:14And he hath broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, and filleth their place with bones of men;

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 →

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