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Keluaran 34:13

Sebaliknya, mezbah-mezbah mereka haruslah kamu rubuhkan, tugu-tugu berhala mereka kamu remukkan, dan tiang-tiang berhala mereka kamu tebang.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Company;   Fellowship;   Iconoclasm;   Jealousy;   Miscegenation;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Iconoclasm;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Idolatry;   Marriage;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Altars;   Groves;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idol, Idolatry;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Treaty;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Israel;   War, Holy War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Asherah;   Grove;   High Place;   Idolatry;   League;   Samson;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Grove;   Jehoiakim;   Pentateuch;   Zipporah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   High Place;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asherah;   Covenant;   Hexateuch;   Idolatry;   Law;   Moses;   Pillar;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Altar ;   Israel, Israelite;   Numbers (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sinai;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rove;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Other Laws;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Images;   Law in the Old Testament;   Pillar;   Ten Commandments, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Law, Reading from the;   Pillar;   Sidra;   Stone and Stone-Worship;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebaliknya, mezbah-mezbah mereka haruslah kamu rubuhkan, tugu-tugu berhala mereka kamu remukkan, dan tiang-tiang berhala mereka kamu tebang.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Melainkan hendaklah kamu membongkar segala mezbahnya dan memecahkan segala patung yang didirikannya, dan menebang segala hutan-hutannya.

Contextual Overview

10 And he said: Beholde, I make a couenaunt before all thy people, & I will do meruayles, such as haue not ben done in all the worlde, neither in all nations: & all the people amongest whiche thou art, shall see the worke of the Lorde: for it is a terrible thyng that I wyll do with thee. 11 Kepe diligently those thinges that I commaunde thee this day: Beholde, I cast out before thee, the Amorites, Chanaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Heuites and Iebusites. 12 Take heede to thy self, lest thou make any compact with the inhabitours of the lande whyther thou goest, lest they be cause of ruine amongest you: 13 But ouerthrowe their aulters, and breake their images, and cut downe their groues. 14 Thou shalt worship no straunge God: for the Lorde is called ielous, because he is a ielous God. 15 Lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabitours of the lande, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice vnto their gods: they call thee, and thou eate of theyr sacrifice. 16 And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes, and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods, and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also. 17 Thou shalt make thee no gods of mettall.

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

Genesis 34:18
Theyr wordes pleased Hemor, and Sichem his sonne.
Genesis 34:20
Then Hemor and Sichem his sonne went vnto the gate of their citie, and communed with the men of their citie, saying:
Genesis 34:23
Shall not their goodes and their substaunce, and all their cattell be ours? let vs only consent vnto them, and they will dwell with vs.
Genesis 34:24
And vnto Hemor & Sichem his sonne, hearkened all that went out at the gate of his citie: and all the males were circumcised, whatsoeuer went out at the gate of his citie.
Genesis 34:26
And slue also Hemor and Sithem his sonne with the edge of the sworde, and toke Dina out of Sichems house, and went theyr way.
Genesis 34:27
And the sonnes of Iacob commyng vpon the dead, spoyled the citie, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:28
And toke their sheepe, oxen, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and also in the fieldes.
Genesis 34:29
And all their goodes, and all their children, and their wiues, toke they captiue, and made hauocke of all that was in the house.
Judges 15:3
Samson sayde vnto hym: Nowe am I more blamelesse then the Philistines, and therfore will I do them displeasure.
Job 13:4
As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.

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".


 
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