Exodus 34:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Asherim

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

¹³ but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

Common English Bible

¹³ You must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves.

Exodus 34:13 Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

the Lord will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

2 Kings 10:27

And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had burned incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He took away the foreign altars and the high places, and broke down the pillars and hewed down the Asherim,

2 Chronicles 15:16

Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed 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 brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord; and furthermore he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:18

And they forsook the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and hewed down the Asherim and broke 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, every man to his possession.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.

Exodus 23:24

you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

Isaiah 17:8

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 Asherim or the altars of incense.

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 Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

Jeremiah 17:2

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

Micah 5:14

and I will root out your Asherim from among you and destroy your cities.

Numbers 33:52

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places;

Deuteronomy 16:21

“You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God which you shall make.

Deuteronomy 16:22

And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Judges 2:2

and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. What is this you have done?

Judges 6:25

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 which your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;

Judges 6:26

and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”