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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.

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ASV

But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

KJV

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּֽי־ki-thatH3588 →
אִם־'im-exceptH518 →
כֹּ֤הkohthusH3541 →
תַעֲשׂוּ֙ta.'a.Suyou will doH6213 →
לָהֶ֔םla.Hemto <the> them
מִזְבְּחֹתֵיהֶ֣םmiz.be.cho.tei.Hemaltars theirH4196 →
תִּתֹּ֔צוּti.To.tzuyou will break downH5422 →
וּמַצֵּבֹתָ֖םu.ma.tze.vo.Tamand sacred pillars theirH4676 →
תְּשַׁבֵּ֑רוּte.sha.Be.ruyou will shatterH7665 →
וַאֲשֵֽׁירֵהֶם֙va.'a.shei.re.Hemand Asherah poles theirH842 →
תְּגַדֵּע֔וּןte.ga.de.'Unyou will cut down !H1438 →
וּפְסִילֵיהֶ֖םu.fe.si.lei.Hemand images theirH6456 →
תִּשְׂרְפ֥וּןtis.re.Funyou will burn !H8313 →
בָּאֵֽשׁ׃ba.'Eshwith <the> fireH784 →

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Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy 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.Exodus 23:24You 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 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.Deuteronomy 12:2–3Destroy 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.2 Chronicles 14:3He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.Deuteronomy 7:25You 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.Leviticus 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 9:21And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.Judges 6:25–26On 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 beside it.2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.Deuteronomy 12:3Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.2 Samuel 5:21There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.2 Kings 23:6–14He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.Genesis 35:4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.1 Chronicles 14:12There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.Judges 6:25On 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 beside it.

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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