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Exodus 34:13

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

KJV

sed aras eorum destrue, confringe statuas, lucosque succide :

Vulgate

τοὺς βωμοὺς αὐτῶν καθελεῖτε, καὶ τὰς στήλας αὐτῶν συντρίψετε, καὶ τὰ ἄλση αὐτῶν ἐκκόψετε, καὶ τὰ γλυπτὰ τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν κατακαύσετε ἐν πυρί.

LXX

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

ASV

כִּ֤י אֶת מִזְבְּחֹתָ/ם֙ תִּתֹּצ֔וּ/ן וְ/אֶת מַצֵּבֹתָ֖/ם תְּשַׁבֵּר֑וּ/ן וְ/אֶת אֲשֵׁרָ֖י/ו תִּכְרֹתֽוּ/ן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה
'shrh
proper_noun · 40×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
הוּ
hv
verb · 42×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 32×
מִּזְבֵּ֖חַ
mzbch
noun · 402×
נִשְׁבְּר֥וּ
nshbrv
verb · 149×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Q. May we then not make any image at all? A. God can not and may not be visibly portrayed in any way. Although creatures may be portrayed, yet God forbids making or having such images if one's purpose is to worship them or to serve God through them.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 14:15 — For the LORD shall smite 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 t
  • 1Kgs 16:33 — And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
  • 2Chr 14:3 — For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
  • 2Chr 15:16 — And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook K
  • 2Chr 31:1 — Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out
  • 2Chr 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and
  • 2Kgs 17:10 — And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
  • 2Kgs 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it
  • 2Kgs 23:14 — And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
  • Deut 7:5 — 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.
  • Deut 7:5 — 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.
  • Deut 7:25 — The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the L
  • Deut 12:2 — Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
  • Deut 16:21 — Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
  • Deut 16:21 — Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
  • Exod 23:24 — 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.
  • Judg 2:2 — And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
  • Judg 3:7 — And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
  • Judg 6:25 — And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and
  • Judg 6:25 — And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and
  • Mic 5:14 — And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.