Cross References But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves: Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. Deuteronomy 12:3 Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places. Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God: Judges 2:2 On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this? Judges 6:25 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar: Judges 6:26 And thou shalt build un altar to the Lord thy God, in the top of this rock, whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice before: and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut down out of the grove. 1 Kings 14:15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord. 2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan. 2 Chronicles 14:3 And broke the statues, and cut down the groves. 2 Chronicles 15:16 Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron. 2 Chronicles 17:6 And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda. 2 Chronicles 24:18 And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin. 2 Chronicles 31:1 And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities. 2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai. 2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. Isaiah 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples. Isaiah 27:9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand. Jeremiah 17:2 When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains, Micah 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves: ye shall Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. Deuteronomy 7:5,25,26 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. . . . Deuteronomy 12:2,3 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: . . . Judges 2:2 On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this? Judges 6:25 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar: 2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan. 2 Kings 23:14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men. 2 Chronicles 31:1 And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities. 2 Chronicles 34:3,4 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. . . . images. Context The LORD Renews the Covenant…12Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: 13But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:14Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a jealous God.… Lexicon Rather,כִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction you must tear down תִּתֹּצ֔וּן (tit·tō·ṣūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's Hebrew 5422: To pull down, break down their altars, מִזְבְּחֹתָם֙ (miz·bə·ḥō·ṯām) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4196: An altar smash תְּשַׁבֵּר֑וּן (tə·šab·bê·rūn) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's Hebrew 7665: To break, break in pieces their sacred stones, מַצֵּבֹתָ֖ם (maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·ṯām) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol and chop down תִּכְרֹתֽוּן׃ (tiḵ·rō·ṯūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's Hebrew 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant their Asherah poles. אֲשֵׁרָ֖יו (’ă·šê·rāw) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 842: A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same Additional Translations Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim; Ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire. but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs. but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim; for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down; Jump to Previous Altars Asherah Asherahs Asherim Ashe'rim Break Broken Cut Dash Demolish Destroy Groves Hew Images Overturned Pieces Pillars Poles Rather Sacred Shatter Shiver Shrines Smash Standing Statues Stones TearJump to Next Altars Asherah Asherahs Asherim Ashe'rim Break Broken Cut Dash Demolish Destroy Groves Hew Images Overturned Pieces Pillars Poles Rather Sacred Shatter Shiver Shrines Smash Standing Statues Stones TearExternal Links Exodus 34:13 NIVExodus 34:13 NLT Exodus 34:13 ESV Exodus 34:13 NASB Exodus 34:13 ASV Exodus 34:13 Bible Apps Exodus 34:13 Biblia Paralela Exodus 34:13 Chinese Bible Exodus 34:13 French Bible Exodus 34:13 German Bible Alphabetical: altars and are Asherah Asherim Break But cut down pillars poles rather sacred smash stones tear their to you OT Law: Exodus 34:13 But you shall break down their altars (Exo. 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