Deuteronomy 7:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:26

and took out the pillars of the temple of Baal. They burned the shrine,

1 Chronicles 14:12

The Philistines abandoned their gods there, and David ordered them to be burnt.

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 32:20

Taking the calf they had made, he burned it in the fire and then ground it down to powder, which he scattered on the water and made the Israelites drink.

Exodus 34:13

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

Isaiah 17:8

They shall not turn to the altars, the work of their hands, nor shall they look to what their fingers have made: the asherahs or the incense stands.

Leviticus 26:1

Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the Lord, am your God.

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.

Deuteronomy 16:21

You shall not plant an asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar of the Lord, your God, which you will build;

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the Lord, your God, hates.

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 9:21

Then, taking the calf, the sinful object you had made, I burnt it and ground it down to powder as fine as dust, which I threw into the wadi that went down the mountainside.