Exodus 34:13

New Century Version

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

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.

2 Kings 10:27

They tore down the stone pillar of Baal, as well as the temple of Baal. And they made it into a sewage pit, as it is today.

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 14:3

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 15:16

King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother, because she had made a terrible Asherah idol. Asa cut down that idol, smashed it into pieces, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 17:6

He wanted very much to obey the Lord. He also removed the places for worshiping gods and the Asherah idols from Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:18

The king and these leaders stopped worshiping in the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors. Instead, they began to worship the Asherah idols and other idols. Because they did wrong, God was angry with the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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 33:19

Manasseh’s prayer and God’s pity for him, his sins, his unfaithfulness, the places he built for worshiping gods and the Asherah idols before he humbled himself—all are written in the book of the seers.

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.

Isaiah 17:8

They will not trust the altars they have made, nor will they trust what their hands have made, not even the Asherah idols and altars.

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.

Micah 5:14

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

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 16:21

Do not set up a wooden Asherah idol next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 16:22

and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.

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.

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?

Judges 6:25

That same night the Lord said to Gideon, “Take the bull that belongs to your father and a second bull seven years old. Pull down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah idol beside it.

Judges 6:26

Then build an altar to the Lord your God with its stones in the right order on this high ground. Kill and burn a second bull on this altar, using the wood from the Asherah idol.”