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Exodus 34:13
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but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles.
Destroy their altars, break their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah idols.
Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
"But you shall tear down and destroy their [pagan] altars, smash in pieces their [sacred] pillars (obelisks, images) and cut down their Asherim
"But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their Asherim
But yee shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake their images in pieces, & cut downe their groues,
But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim
Instead, you must destroy their altars and tear down the sacred poles they use in the worship of the goddess Asherah.
Rather, you are to demolish their altars, smash their standing-stones and cut down their sacred poles;
but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.
So destroy their altars, break the stones they worship, and cut down their idols.
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
But you must destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their idols.
Instead, tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
But you shall cut down their altars, break their pillars, and you shall cut off their Asherahs.
but their alters shalt thou ouerthrowe, & breake downe their goddes, and rote out their groaues:
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim
But ouerthrowe their aulters, and breake their images, and cut downe their groues.
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, breake their images, and cut downe their groues.
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 break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
But also distrie thou `the auteris of hem, breke the ymagis, and kitte doun the woodis;
for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;
But you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you 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;
But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
Instead you are to tear down their altars, break their objects of worship, and cut down their false gods.
You shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles
For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver, - And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:
You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Ashe'rim
"Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don't worship any other god. God —his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don't make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.
"But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye shall: Exodus 23:24, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 7:26, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3, Judges 2:2, Judges 6:25, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:14, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:4
images: Heb. statutes
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:21 - General Judges 3:7 - the groves 1 Kings 14:15 - beyond the river 1 Kings 16:33 - made a grove 2 Kings 17:10 - they set 2 Chronicles 14:3 - brake
Cross-References
And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.
Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.
Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.
And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.
And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.
Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.
But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But ye shall destroy their altars,.... On which they had sacrificed to their idols; since, if they were allowed to continue, they might be temptations to offer sacrifice thereon, contrary to the command of God:
break their images: of gold or silver, wood or stone, which they made for themselves, and worshipped as deities; seeing if these continued, the sight of them might lead to the worship of them, and so bring under the divine displeasure, as a breach of the command of God given them:
and cut down their groves; which were clusters of trees, where they had their temples and their idols, and did service to them, and where, besides idolatry, many impurities were committed. Such places were originally used by good men for devotion, being shady and solitary, but when abused to superstitious and idolatrous uses, were forbidden. It is said n, the word for "grove" is general, and includes every tree they serve, or plant, for an idol.
n R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 72. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; see Exodus 24:7).
Exodus 34:13
Cut down their groves - This is the first reference to what is commonly known as grove-worship. The original word for “grove” in this connection אשׁרה 'ăshêrāh is different from that so rendered in Genesis 21:33. Our translators supposed that what the law commands is the destruction of groves dedicated to the worship of false deities Judges 6:25; 2 Kings 18:4; but inasmuch as the worship of asherah is found associated with that of Astarte, or Ashtoreth Judges 2:13; Jdg 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, it seems probable that while Astarte was the personal name of the goddess, the asherah was a symbol of her, probably in some one of her characters, made in wood in some conventional form.
Exodus 34:15-16
An expansion of Exodus 34:12. The unfaithfulness of the nation to its covenant with Yahweh is here for the first time spoken of as a breach of the marriage bond. The metaphor is, in any case, a natural one, but it seems to gain point, if we suppose it to convey an allusion to the abominations connected with pagan worship, such as are spoken of in Numbers 25:1-3.
Exodus 34:21
See Exodus 20:9; Exodus 23:12. There is here added to the commandment a particular caution respecting those times of year when the land calls for most labor. The old verb “to ear” (i. e. to plow) is genuine English.
Exodus 34:24
Neither shall any man desire etc. - Intended to encourage such as might fear the consequences of obeying the divine law in attending to their religious duties. Compare Proverbs 16:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 34:13. Ye shall destroy their images — See the subjects of this and all the following verses, to Exodus 34:28, treated at large in the notes on "Exodus 23:24".
