Deuteronomy 12:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

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.

Leviticus 20:23

Do not conform, therefore, to the customs of the nations whom I am driving out of your way, because all these things that they have done have filled me with disgust for them.

Deuteronomy 12:3

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.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you shall seek out the place which the Lord, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as his dwelling to put his name there. There you shall go,

Deuteronomy 20:18

so that they do not teach you to do all the abominations that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord, your God. Trees of a Besieged City.

Joshua 22:15

When these came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead, they said to them: