Deuteronomy 12:2

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• אַבֵּ֣דcertainly <destroy>

  ʾabedH6 →184 times

• תְּ֠אַבְּדוּןyou will destroy !

  teabedunH6 →184 times

• אֶֽת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• כָּל־all

  kol-H3605 →5413 times

• הַמְּקֹמ֞וֹתthe places

  hamekomotH4725 →401 times

• אֲשֶׁ֧רwhere

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• עָֽבְדוּ־they have served

  ʾavedu-H5647 →288 times

• שָׁ֣םthere

  shamH8033 →834 times

• הַגּוֹיִ֗םthe nations

  hagoyimH1471 →561 times

• אֲשֶׁ֥רwhom

  ʾasherH834 →5497 times

• אַתֶּ֛םyou

  ʾatemH859 →1094 times

• יֹרְשִׁ֥ים[are] about to dispossess

  yoreshimH3423 →231 times

• אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

  ʾotamH853 →10935 times

• אֶת־<obj.>

  ʾet-H853 →10935 times

• אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑םgods their

  ʾeloheihemH430 →2601 times

• עַל־on

  ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

• הֶהָרִ֤יםthe mountains

  heharimH2022 →546 times

• הָֽרָמִים֙<the> high

  haramimH7311 →190 times

• וְעַל־and on

  veal-H5921 →5755 times

• הַגְּבָע֔וֹתthe hills

  hagevaotH1389 →

• וְתַ֖חַתand under

  vetachatH8478 →505 times

• כָּל־every

  kol-H3605 →5413 times

• עֵ֥ץtree

  ʾetzH6086 →328 times

• רַעֲנָן׃luxuriant

  raananH7488 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  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.

  it leads to

  • 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.

  • Exodus 34:13

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

  • Deuteronomy 12:2–3

    Destroy 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.

  • Judges 6:25–26

    On 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…

  • Deuteronomy 16:22

    and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

• Through

  2 Kings 16:4

  And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  it leads to

  • 1 Kings 14:23

    They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Isaiah 57:5–7

    who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Isaiah 66:17

    “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.