Deuteronomy 12:3

Tree of Life Version

You are to tear down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their Asherah poles in the fire and cut down the carved images of their gods, and you are to obliterate their name from that place.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:15

Adonai will strike Israel until it sways like a reed in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Adonai.

1 Kings 15:13

Also he deposed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah pole. So Asa cut down her image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 11:18

Next, all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke his altars and his images into pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. Moreover, the kohen appointed officers over the House of Adonai.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .

2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones.

2 Chronicles 14:2

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

2 Chronicles 14:3

He commanded Judah to seek Adonai, the God of their fathers, and to obey the Torah and the mitzvah.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, good things are found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the towns of Judah and smashed the pillars, smashed the Asherah poles and demolished the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as throughout Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all Bnei-Yisrael returned to their towns, each to their own property.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved and molten images.

Psalm 16:4

As for those who run after another god, may their sorrows multiply. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor lift up their names with my lips.

Exodus 23:13

“With all the things that I have said to you, take heed. Make no mention of the names of other gods, and do not let them be heard in your mouth.

Exodus 23:24

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.

Exodus 34:13

Instead you must break down their ­altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.

Isaiah 27:9

So by this will Jacob’s sin be atoned and this the full price to remove his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like shattered chalk stones, so that the Asherah poles and incense rise no more.

Jeremiah 17:2

So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.

Hosea 2:17

I will give her back her vineyards from there and make the valley of Achor a door of hope. She will respond there— as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Micah 5:14

So I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that have not listened.

Zechariah 13:2

It will happen in that day”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“that I will erase the names of the idols from the land and they will no longer be remembered. Furthermore, 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. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 12:4

“You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God.

Deuteronomy 7:25

“The carved images of their gods you are to burn with fire. You are not to covet the silver or gold on them or take it for yourself—or you could be snared by it, for it is an abomination to Adonai your God.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, you are to deal with them like this: tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

Revelation 13:1

Then I saw a beast rising out of the sea, that had ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten royal crowns, and upon his heads were slanderous names.

Judges 2:2

Now as for you, you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You must break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?