Deuteronomy 12:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles with fire, and cut down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their name from their places.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ You shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.

Common English Bible

³ Rip down their altars and shatter their sacred stones. Burn their sacred poles with fire. Hack their gods’ idols into pieces. Wipe out their names from that place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Scatter their altars and break their statues. Burn their sacred groves with fire and crush their idols. Abolish their names from those places.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues: burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces. Destroy their names out of those places.

Deuteronomy 12:3 Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

“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.

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah; Asa cut down her image and burned it at the Wadi Kidron.

2 Kings 11:18

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. The priest posted guards over the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 18:4

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.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles,

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the sacred poles out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

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.

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the sacred poles, and the carved and the cast images.

Psalm 16:4

Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

Exodus 23:13

Be attentive to all that I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:24

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.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

Isaiah 27:9

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.

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.

Micah 5:14

and I will uproot your sacred poles from among you and destroy your towns.

Zechariah 13:2

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more, and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.

Numbers 33:52

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.

Deuteronomy 12:4

You shall not serve the Lord your God in such ways.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:5

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.

Revelation 13:1

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names.

Judges 2:2

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!