Exodus 34:13
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New International Version (©1984)
Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But tear down their altars, crush their sacred stones, and cut down their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

King James Bible
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

American King James Version
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

American Standard Version
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

Bible in Basic English
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

Douay-Rheims Bible
But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:

Darby Bible Translation
but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.

English Revised Version
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:

Webster's Bible Translation
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.

World English Bible
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

Young's Literal Translation
for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;

Geneva Study Bible

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their {d} groves:

(d) Which pleasant places they chose for their idols.

King James Translators' Notes

images: Heb. statues

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:10-17 The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Pr 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only.


Exodus 23:24 "You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.
Deuteronomy 12:3 "You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.
Deuteronomy 16:21 "You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.
Judges 6:25 Now on the same night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;
Judges 6:26 and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images. (NASB ©1995)

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 Tear


But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

ye shall Ex 23:24 De 7:5,25,26 12:2,3 Jud 2:2 6:25 2Ki 18:4 23:14 2Ch 31:1 34:3,4

images. Heb. statutes

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