Deuteronomy 12:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ “And you shall break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and burn their Ashĕ

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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.

Deuteronomy 12:3 Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

“And יהוה  shall smite Yisra’ĕ

1 Kings 15:13

And he also removed Maʽ

2 Kings 11:18

And all the people of the land went to the house of Baʽ

2 Kings 18:4

He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashĕ

2 Kings 23:14

And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Ashĕ

2 Chronicles 14:2

And Asa did what was good and what was right in the eyes of יהוה  his Elohim,

2 Chronicles 14:3

and removed the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and broke down the pillars and cut down the Ashĕ

2 Chronicles 19:3

“But good matters are found in you, in that you have removed the Ashĕ

2 Chronicles 31:1

And at the completion of all this, all Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 34:3

And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ

Psalm 16:4

The sorrows of those who run after another one are increased; I would not pour out their drink offerings of blood, Nor take up their names on my lips.

Exodus 23:13

“And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.

Exodus 23:24

“Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars.

Exodus 34:13

“But break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕ

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the crookedness of Yaʽ

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕ

Hosea 2:17

“And I shall remove the names of the Baʽ

Micah 5:14

“And I shall pluck your Ashĕ

Zechariah 13:2

“And it shall be in that day,” declares יהוה  of hosts, “that I cut off the names of the idols from the earth, and they shall be remembered no more, and I shall also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the earth.

Numbers 33:52

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and shall destroy all their engraved stones, and shall destroy all their moulded images, and lay waste all their high places,

Deuteronomy 12:4

“Do not do so to יהוה  your Elohim,

Deuteronomy 7:25

“The carved images of their mighty ones you are to burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to יהוה  your Elohim.

Deuteronomy 7:5

“But this is what you do to them: Break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕ

Revelation 13:1

And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads names of blasphemy.

Judges 2:2

and as for you, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land – break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?