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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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ASV

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

KJV

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֤הtish.ta.cha.Vehyou must bow downH7812 →
לֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙le.lo.hei.Hemto gods theirH430 →
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תָֽעָבְדֵ֔םta.'a.ve.Demyou must be enticed to serve themH5647 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תַעֲשֶׂ֖הta.'a.Sehyou must makeH6213 →
כְּמַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑םke.ma.'a.sei.Hemlike works theirH4639 →
כִּ֤יkiforH3588 →
הָרֵס֙ha.Rescompletely <tear down>H2040 →
תְּהָ֣רְסֵ֔םte.Ha.re.Semyou will tear down themH2040 →
וְשַׁבֵּ֥רve.sha.Berand totally <shatter>H7665 →
תְּשַׁבֵּ֖רte.sha.Beryou will shatter into piecesH7665 →
מַצֵּבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ma.tze.vo.tei.Hemsacred pillars theirH4676 →

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Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,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 12:30–31be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”Numbers 33:52you 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.Exodus 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.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.Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, 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.2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.Exodus 32:20Then 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.Leviticus 18:3You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.2 Kings 3:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.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.Exodus 34:13–14Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.Leviticus 18:26–30But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.2 Chronicles 34:3–7In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

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