Exodus 34:13

Modern English Version

But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

For the Lord will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and He will uproot Israel from this good land, which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.

2 Kings 10:27

They broke down the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the house of Baal and made it a latrine to this day.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and crushed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had made offerings to it. They called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their sites with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He took down the foreign altars and high places, and he shattered the pillars and cut down the images of Asherah.

2 Chronicles 15:16

King Asa even removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was raised up for the ways of the Lord. He even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:18

Then they abandoned the house of the Lord and God of their fathers, and they served the Asherah poles and idols. And divine wrath was on Judah and Jerusalem because of this guilt.

2 Chronicles 31:1

And when this celebration was finished, all of Israel that was present went out to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until everything was destroyed. Then all Israel returned to their cities, each man to his own possession.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and where he set up the Asherah poles and images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the sayings of Hozai.

Exodus 23:24

You must not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or do according to their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break down their images in pieces.

Isaiah 17:8

He shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor shall he respect what his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

Isaiah 27:9

Through this, therefore, the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven, and this will be the full price of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are pulverized, when the groves and incense altars shall not stand.

Jeremiah 17:2

as they remember their children, so they remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.

Micah 5:14

then I will root out your Asherah idols from among you, and I will annihilate your cities.

Numbers 33:52

then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images, and destroy all their high places,

Deuteronomy 16:21

You must not plant for yourself an Asherah of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God, which you make for yourself.

Deuteronomy 16:22

You shall not set up for yourself any image, which the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you shall deal with them: You shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their Asherim and burn their graven images with fire.

Judges 2:2

but you must not make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you must tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

Judges 6:25

That night the Lord said to him, “Take a bull from your father’s herd and a second bull seven years old. Tear down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

Judges 6:26

Then build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this stronghold in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah pole that you will cut down.”