Deuteronomy 12:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their asherahs, and chop down the idols of their gods, that you may destroy the very name of them from that place.

Cross References

Judges 2:2

but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars. But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done!

Numbers 33:52

dispossess all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Zechariah 13:2

On that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts—I will destroy the names of the idols from the land, so that they will be mentioned no more; I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land.

Psalm 16:4

They multiply their sorrows who court other gods. Blood libations to them I will not pour out, nor will I take their names upon my lips.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you must deal with them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their asherahs, and destroy their idols by fire.

Exodus 23:13

Give heed to all that I have told you. You shall not mention the name of any other god; it shall not be heard from your lips.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous name[s].

Micah 5:14

I will wreak vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not listened.

Hosea 2:17

Then I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as on the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 17:2

when their children remember their altars and their asherahs, beside the green trees, on the high hills,

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek after the God of David his father. Then in his twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the asherahs, and the carved and molten images.

2 Chronicles 31:1

After all this was over, those Israelites who had been present went forth to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the asherahs, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they were all destroyed. Then the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Yet some good has been found in you, since you have removed the asherahs from the land and have set your heart to seek God.” Judges Appointed.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke to pieces the pillars, cut down the asherahs, and filled the places where they had been with human bones.

2 Kings 18:4

It was he who removed the high places, shattered the pillars, cut down the asherah, and smashed the bronze serpent Moses had made, because up to that time the Israelites were burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)

1 Kings 15:13

He also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an outrageous object for Asherah. Asa cut down this object and burned it in the Wadi Kidron.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He told Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to observe the law and the commandment.

Exodus 23:24

Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

Exodus 34:13

Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.

Deuteronomy 12:4

That is not how you are to act toward the Lord, your God.

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the Lord.

2 Kings 11:18

Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and demolished it. They shattered its altars and images completely, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. Jehoiada the priest appointed a detachment for the house of the Lord,

Isaiah 27:9

This, then, shall be the expiation of Jacob’s guilt, this the result of removing his sin: He shall pulverize all the stones of the altars like pieces of chalk; no asherahs or incense altars shall stand.

2 Chronicles 14:2

He removed the illicit altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the asherahs.