Iconoclasm

How Nave’s arranged it

• Idols to be destroyedExodus 23:24Exodus 34:13Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 7:25Deuteronomy 7:26Deuteronomy 12:1–4Judges 2:2Jeremiah 50:2
• Destroyed by
• JacobGenesis 35:2–4
• MosesExodus 32:19Exodus 32:20
• GideonJudges 6:28–32
• David2 Samuel 5:211 Chronicles 14:12
• Jehu2 Kings 10:26–28
• Jehoiada2 Kings 11:18
• Hezekiah2 Kings 18:3–6
• Josiah2 Kings 23:4–20
• Asa2 Chronicles 14:3–52 Chronicles 15:8–16
• Jehoshaphat2 Chronicles 17:62 Chronicles 19:3

The passages, in Bible order (25)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 35:2–4

   So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 35:2–41 voice

   “After he was called by God, Jacob ascends to Bethel, that is, to the house of God (this is how the name Bethel is interpreted), offers sacrifices to God and is declared chief and master of the holy rites. He teaches his successors and descendants how they must enter the house of God. He orders the foreign gods to be rejected like dung and filth and to change the garments. It is fitting for us to do likewise when we are called before God, or enter the divine temple, especially in the time of the holy baptism.

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2. Exodus 23:24

   You 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.

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   “Thou shalt not bow down to their gods,....

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3. Exodus 32:19

   As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:191 voice

   “And it came to pass, as soon, as he came nigh unto the camp,....

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4. Exodus 32:20

   Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:201 voice

   “Moses ground the head of the golden calf to powder, and cast it into water, and made the people drink of it; for their heart was hardened by the greatness of their perfidy, and he did thus that it might be softened and made refined by faith. Lastly, that woman who grinds meal well and fine shall be taken, but she who grinds ill shall be left.

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5. Exodus 34:13

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

   ›Commentary on Exodus 34:131 voice

   “But ye shall destroy their altars,....

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6. Numbers 33:52

   you 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.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 33:521 voice

   “Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you,....

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7. Deuteronomy 7:5

   Instead, 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.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:51 voice

   “But thus shall ye deal with them,.... The inhabitants of the land of Canaan: ye shall destroy their altars; on which they sacrificed to their idols: and break down their images; of their gods, and the statues and pillars erected to the honour of them: and cut down their groves; sacred to idols, which were usually planted on hills, and about Heathen temples, and under which idols were placed to be worshipped.

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8. Deuteronomy 7:25

   You 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.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 7:251 voice

   “The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire,....

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9. Deuteronomy 7:26

   And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

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   “Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house,....

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10. Deuteronomy 12:1–4

    These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.

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    “These are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do,....

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11. Judges 2:2

    and 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?

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    “And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land,....

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12. Judges 6:28–32

    When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.

    ›Commentary on Judges 6:28–321 voice

    “And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,....

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13. 2 Samuel 5:21

    There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.

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    “And they left their images,....

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14. 2 Kings 10:26–28

    They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

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15. 2 Kings 11:18

    So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 11:182 voices

    “After the kingdom had been pacified and its problems settled down, Jehoiada devoted himself to restore the religion of God, which had been destroyed by Joram and his successors. Therefore, in the first place, he persuaded the king and the entire people to renew the …

    “And all the people of the land,....

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16. 2 Kings 18:3–6

    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 18:3–61 voice

    “And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. Some of the kings of Judah, that were better than some others, are said to do that which was right, but not like David; or they did as he did, but not according to all that he did, as is here said of Hezekiah.

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