Exodus 34:13

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“Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.”

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BSBPD

“Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 34:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 23:24You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
  2. Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
  4. Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
  5. Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  6. Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
  7. Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
  8. Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
  9. Judges 6:25On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
  10. 2 Kings 10:27They also demolished the sacred pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine, which it is to this day.
  11. 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
  12. 2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
  13. 2 Chronicles 31:1When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
  14. 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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