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• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 35:3

  Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Exodus 23:24

  You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

• Exodus 32:19

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Exodus 32:20

  He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

• Exodus 34:13

  but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

• Numbers 33:52

  then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But you shall deal with them like this. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• Deuteronomy 7:25

  You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 7:26

  You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

• Deuteronomy 12:1

  These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.

• Deuteronomy 12:2

  You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

• Deuteronomy 12:3

  You shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.

• Deuteronomy 12:4

  You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

• Judges 2:2

  You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?

• Judges 6:28

  When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

• Judges 6:29

  They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

• Judges 6:30

  Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

• Judges 6:31

  Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

• Judges 6:32

  Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

• 2 Samuel 5:21

  They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

• 2 Kings 10:26

  They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

• 2 Kings 10:27

  They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

• 2 Kings 10:28

  Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

• 2 Kings 11:18

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 18:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• 2 Kings 18:5

  He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

• 2 Kings 18:6

  For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:5

  He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

• 2 Kings 23:6

  He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

• 2 Kings 23:7

  He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:8

  He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

• 2 Kings 23:9

  Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

• 2 Kings 23:10

  He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

• 2 Kings 23:11

  He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Kings 23:13

  The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 2 Kings 23:14

  He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Kings 23:16

  As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

• 2 Kings 23:17

  Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

• 2 Kings 23:18

  He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 23:19

  All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 14:12

  They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

• 2 Chronicles 14:4

  and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

• 2 Chronicles 14:5

  Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.

• 2 Chronicles 15:9

  He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

• 2 Chronicles 15:10

  So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

• 2 Chronicles 15:11

  They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

• 2 Chronicles 15:12

  They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• 2 Chronicles 15:13

  and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

• 2 Chronicles 15:14

  They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.

• 2 Chronicles 15:15

  All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

• 2 Chronicles 15:16

  Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 17:6

  His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 19:3

  Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

• 2 Chronicles 30:14

  They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

• Jeremiah 50:2

  “Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’