Deuteronomy 12:3

New Century Version

Tear down their altars, smash their holy stone pillars, and burn their Asherah idols in the fire. Cut down their idols and destroy their names from those places.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

Then the Lord will punish Israel, which will be like reeds swaying in the water. The Lord will pull up Israel from this good land, the land he gave their ancestors. He will scatter Israel beyond the Euphrates River, because he is angry with the people. They made the Lord angry when they set up idols to worship Asherah.

1 Kings 15:13

His grandmother Maacah had made a terrible Asherah idol, so Asa removed her from being queen mother. He cut down that idol and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 11:18

All the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, smashing the altars and idols. They also killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest placed guards at the Temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the places where gods were worshiped. He smashed the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah idols. Also the Israelites had been burning incense to Nehushtan, the bronze snake Moses had made. But Hezekiah broke it into pieces.

2 Kings 23:14

Josiah smashed to pieces the stone pillars they worshiped, and he cut down the Asherah idols. Then he covered the places with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa did what the Lord his God said was good and right.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He removed the foreign altars and the places where gods were worshiped. He smashed the stone pillars that honored other gods, and he tore down the Asherah idols.

2 Chronicles 19:3

But there is some good in you. You took the Asherah idols out of this country, and you have tried to obey God.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

When the Passover celebration was finished, all the Israelites in Jerusalem went out to the towns of Judah. There they smashed the stone pillars used to worship gods. They cut down the Asherah idols and destroyed the altars and places for worshiping gods in all of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and homes.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In his eighth year as king while he was still young, Josiah began to obey the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king, Josiah began to remove from Judah and Jerusalem the gods, the places for worshiping gods, the Asherah idols, and the wooden and metal idols.

Psalm 16:4

But those who turn to idols will have much pain. I will not offer blood to those idols or even speak their names.

Exodus 23:13

“Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth.

Exodus 23:24

“You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. You must not live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols, breaking into pieces the stone pillars they use in worship.

Exodus 34:13

Destroy their altars, break their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah idols.

Isaiah 27:9

This is how Israel’s guilt will be forgiven; this is how its sins will be taken away: Israel will crush the rocks of the altar to dust, and no statues or altars will be left standing for the Asherah idols.

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children remember their altars to idols and their Asherah idols beside the green trees and on the high hills.

Hosea 2:17

I will never let her say the names of Baal again; people won’t use their names anymore.

Micah 5:14

I will tear down Asherah idols from you and destroy your cities.

Zechariah 13:2

The Lord All-Powerful says, “At that time I will get rid of the names of the idols from the land; no one will remember them anymore. I will also remove the prophets and unclean spirits from the land.

Numbers 33:52

force out all the people who live there. Destroy all of their carved statues and metal idols. Wreck all of their places of worship.

Deuteronomy 12:4

Don’t worship the Lord your God that way,

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn up their idols in the fire. Do not wish for the silver and gold they have, and don’t take it for yourselves, or you will be trapped by it. The Lord your God hates it.

Deuteronomy 7:5

This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their altars, smash their holy stone pillars, cut down their Asherah idols, and burn their idols in the fire.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and there was a crown on each horn. A name against God was written on each head.

Judges 2:2

But you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You must destroy their altars.’ But you did not obey me. How could you do this?