Exodus 23:24
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24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship(A) them or follow their practices.(B) You must demolish(C) them and break their sacred stones(D) to pieces.
Exodus 20:5
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Numbers 33:52
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52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.(A)
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
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30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared(A) by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”(B) 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates.(C) They even burn their sons(D) and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.(E)
Deuteronomy 12:3
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3 Break down their altars, smash(A) their sacred stones and burn(B) their Asherah(C) poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names(D) from those places.
Deuteronomy 7:5
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5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[a](A) and burn their idols in the fire.(B)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy
2 Chronicles 33:9
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9 But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.(A)
Leviticus 18:3
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3 You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.(A)
Exodus 32:20
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20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned(A) it in the fire; then he ground it to powder,(B) scattered it on the water(C) and made the Israelites drink it.
Ezekiel 16:47
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47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(A)
Psalm 106:35-38
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35 but they mingled(A) with the nations
and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,(B)
which became a snare(C) to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons(D)
and their daughters to false gods.(E)
38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons(F) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.
Psalm 101:3
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3 I will not look with approval
on anything that is vile.(A)
I hate what faithless people do;(B)
I will have no part in it.
2 Chronicles 34:3-7
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3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God(A) of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols. 4 Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles(B) and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.(C) 5 He burned(D) the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem. 6 In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them, 7 he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder(E) and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:2
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2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,(A) following the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
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25 The images of their gods you are to burn(A) in the fire. Do not covet(B) the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared(C) by it, for it is detestable(D) to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.(E) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.
Leviticus 18:26-30
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26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws.(A) The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land,(B) it will vomit you out(C) as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29 “‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things—such persons must be cut off from their people. 30 Keep my requirements(D) and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.(E)’”
Exodus 34:13-14
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13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a](A) 14 Do not worship any other god,(B) for the Lord, whose name(C) is Jealous, is a jealous God.(D)
Footnotes
- Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
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