Exodus 23:24
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24 You shall not (A)bow down to their gods, nor serve them, (B)nor do according to their works; (C)but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
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Numbers 33:52
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52 (A)then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their [a]high places;
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- Numbers 33:52 Places for pagan worship
Exodus 20:5
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5 (A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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- Exodus 20:5 worship
- Exodus 20:5 punishing
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
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30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ 31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every [a]abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for (B)they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
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- Deuteronomy 12:31 detestable action
Deuteronomy 12:3
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3 And (A)you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their [a]wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
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- Deuteronomy 12:3 Heb. Asherim
Deuteronomy 7:5
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5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (A)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
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- Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
2 Chronicles 33:9
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9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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Leviticus 18:3
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3 (A)According to [a]the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and (B)according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their [b]ordinances.
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- Leviticus 18:3 what is done in
- Leviticus 18:3 statutes
Ezekiel 16:47
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47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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Psalm 106:35-38
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35 (A)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
36 (B)They served their idols,
(C)Which became a snare to them.
37 (D)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to (E)demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And (F)the land was polluted with blood.
Psalm 101:3
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3 I will set nothing [a]wicked before my eyes;
(A)I hate the work of those (B)who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
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- Psalm 101:3 worthless
2 Chronicles 34:3-7
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still (A)young, he began to (B)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began (C)to purge Judah and Jerusalem (D)of the [a]high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. 4 (E)They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them (F)and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 He also (G)burned the bones of the priests on their (H)altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with [b]axes. 7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (I)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 34:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 34:6 Lit. swords
2 Chronicles 33:2
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2 But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the (A)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 7:25-26
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25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not (A)covet[a] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, (B)for it is an [b]accursed thing.
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- Deuteronomy 7:25 desire
- Deuteronomy 7:26 devoted or banned
Leviticus 18:26-30
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26 (A)You shall therefore [a]keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you 27 (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), 28 lest (B)the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 29 For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be [b]cut off from among their people.
30 ‘Therefore you shall keep My [c]ordinance, so (C)that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: (D)I am the Lord your God.’ ”
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- Leviticus 18:26 obey
- Leviticus 18:29 Put to death
- Leviticus 18:30 charge
Exodus 32:20
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20 (A)Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.
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