Exodus 34:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you shall destroy their altars, dash in pieces their pillars (obelisks, images), and cut down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah]; American Standard Version (1901) but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim; Common English Bible You must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their sacred poles. Catholic Public Domain Version But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves. |
“The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water; he will root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their sacred poles, provoking the Lord to anger.
Then they demolished the pillar of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.
He removed the high places, broke down the pillars, and cut down the sacred pole. He broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it; it was called Nehushtan.
He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles,
King Asa even removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the Wadi Kidron.
His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord; furthermore, he removed the high places and the sacred poles from Judah.
They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the sacred poles and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles, and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, all to their individual properties.
His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.
you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.
they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles or the altars of incense.
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces; no sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.
while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles beside every green tree and on the high hills,
and I will uproot your sacred poles from among you and destroy your towns.
you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.
“You shall not plant any tree as a sacred pole beside the altar that you make for the Lord your God,
nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates.
But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire.
For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. See what you have done!
That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the sacred pole that is beside it
and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, in proper order; then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the sacred pole that you cut down.”