Exodus 34:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Exodus 34:13 Cross References

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: And he brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

Exodus 23:24

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Deuteronomy 7:5

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

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2 Kings 23:14

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

Judges 6:25

And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it:

Judges 2:2

and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars: but ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?

Judges 6:26

and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this strong hold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.

1 Kings 14:15

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

2 Chronicles 14:3

for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim;

2 Chronicles 15:16

And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 17:6

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: and furthermore he took away 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 guiltiness.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

Isaiah 17:8

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he have respect to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

Jeremiah 17:2

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Micah 5:14

and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee: and I will destroy thy cities.

Numbers 33:52

then ye 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 16:22

Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which the LORD thy God hateth.

2 Kings 10:27

And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house, unto this day.