Exodus 34:13
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13 You shall (A)tear down their altars and (B)break their pillars and cut down their (C)Asherim
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2 Kings 18:4
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4 (A)He removed the high places and broke the (B)pillars and cut down (C)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces (D)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).[a]
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- 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent
Exodus 23:24
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24 you shall (A)not bow down to their gods nor serve them, (B)nor do as they do, but (C)you shall utterly overthrow them and break their (D)pillars in pieces.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
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Forbidden Forms of Worship
21 “You shall not plant any tree as (A)an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
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Deuteronomy 12:2-3
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces (C)their pillars and burn their (D)Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and (E)destroy their name out of that place.
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Deuteronomy 7:25-26
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25 The carved images of their gods (A)you shall burn with fire. You (B)shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be (C)ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction[a] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, (D)for it is devoted to destruction.
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- Deuteronomy 7:26 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
Deuteronomy 7:5
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5 But thus shall you deal with them: (A)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their (B)pillars and chop down their (C)Asherim and (D)burn their carved images with fire.
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2 Chronicles 34:3-4
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the (A)Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. 4 And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the (B)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the (C)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and (D)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
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2 Chronicles 31:1
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Hezekiah Organizes the Priests
31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and (A)broke in pieces the (B)pillars and cut down (C)the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
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2 Kings 23:14
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14 And he broke in pieces the (A)pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Judges 6:25
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25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down (A)the Asherah that is beside it
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Judges 2:2
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2 (A)and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; (B)you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
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