Deuteronomy 12:3

New English Translation

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.

1 Kings 15:13

He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 11:18

All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 18:4

He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:2

(14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved.

2 Chronicles 14:3

He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

Psalm 16:4

their troubles multiply, they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.

Exodus 23:13

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:24

“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

Exodus 34:13

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

Isaiah 27:9

So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.

Jeremiah 17:2

Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

Hosea 2:17

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”

Micah 5:14

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

Zechariah 13:2

And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 12:4

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

Deuteronomy 7:25

You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

Judges 2:2

but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?