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.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demol
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and w
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah
So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD h
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out befor
But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-bo
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, o
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.