Deuteronomy 12:3

Good News Translation

Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.

1 Kings 15:13

He removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol and burned it in Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 11:18

Then the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down; they smashed the altars and the idols, and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. Jehoiada put guards on duty at the Temple,

2 Kings 18:4

He destroyed the pagan places of worship, broke the stone pillars, and cut down the images of the goddess Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze snake that Moses had made, which was called Nehushtan. Up to that time the people of Israel had burned incense in its honor.

2 Kings 23:14

King Josiah broke the stone pillars to pieces, cut down the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and the ground where they had stood he covered with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa pleased the Lord, his God, by doing what was right and good.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He removed the foreign altars and the pagan places of worship, broke down the sacred stone columns, and cut down the symbols of the goddess Asherah.

2 Chronicles 19:3

But even so, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah which people worshiped, and you have tried to follow God's will.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

After the festival ended, all the people of Israel went to every city in Judah and broke the stone pillars, cut down the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and destroyed the altars and the pagan places of worship. They did the same thing throughout the rest of Judah, and the territories of Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh; then they all returned home.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year that Josiah was king, while he was still very young, he began to worship the God of his ancestor King David. Four years later he began to destroy the pagan places of worship, the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and all the other idols.

Psalm 16:4

Those who rush to other gods bring many troubles on themselves. I will not take part in their sacrifices; I will not worship their gods.

Exodus 23:13

“Listen to everything that I, the Lord, have said to you. Do not pray to other gods; do not even mention their names.

Exodus 23:24

Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars.

Exodus 34:13

Instead, tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.

Isaiah 27:9

But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

Jeremiah 17:2

Your people worship at the altars and the symbols that have been set up for the goddess Asherah by every green tree and on the hilltops

Hosea 2:17

I will never let her speak the name of Baal again.

Micah 5:14

I will pull down the images of the goddess Asherah in your land and destroy your cities.

Zechariah 13:2

At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all their stone and metal idols and all their places of worship.

Deuteronomy 12:4

“Do not worship the Lord your God in the way that these people worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the Lord hates idolatry.

Deuteronomy 7:5

So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads; on each of its horns there was a crown, and on each of its heads there was a name that was insulting to God.

Judges 2:2

You must not make any covenant with the people who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.’ But you have not done what I told you. You have done just the opposite!