Exodus 23:24

New Century Version

“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.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:11

The Israelites burned incense everywhere gods were worshiped, just as the nations who lived there before them had done, whom the Lord had forced out of the land. The Israelites did wicked things that made the Lord angry.

2 Kings 17:8

They lived like the nations the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of them. They lived as their evil kings had shown them,

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 3:2

He did what the Lord said was wrong, but he was not like his father and mother; he removed the stone pillars his father had made for Baal.

2 Chronicles 14:2

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

2 Chronicles 25:14

When Amaziah came home after defeating the Edomites, he brought back the idols they worshiped and started to worship them himself. He bowed down to them and offered sacrifices to them.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did what the Lord said was wrong. He did the hateful things the nations had done—the nations that the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:9

But Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to do wrong. They did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

Psalm 101:3

I will not look at anything wicked. I hate those who turn against you; they will not be found near me.

Exodus 20:3

“You must not have any other gods except me.

Exodus 20:5

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If you hate me, I will punish your children, and even your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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 23:32

You must not make an agreement with those people or with their gods.

Exodus 23:33

You must not let them live in your land, or they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, you will be caught in a trap.”

Exodus 32:20

Then he took the calf that the people had made and melted it in the fire. He ground it into powder. Then he threw the powder into the water and forced the Israelites to drink it.

Ezekiel 16:47

You not only followed their ways and did the hateful things they did, but you were soon worse than they were in all your ways.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart was false, and now they must pay for their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars; he will destroy their holy stone pillars.

Leviticus 18:3

In the past you lived in Egypt, but you must not do what was done in that country. And you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their customs.

Leviticus 26:1

“ ‘Don’t make idols for yourselves or set up statues or memorials. Don’t put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 25:2

The women invited them to their sacrifices to their gods, and the Israelites ate food there and worshiped these gods.

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 12:3

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.

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.