Exodus 34:13 KJV
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Thou and Ye
- ye more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- God's covenantThe Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with...
Thompson Chains
- GrovesSee the chain from Deuteronomy 12:2 · 12 links
Cross References
- Exodus 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.
- 2 Kings 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: and he called it Nehushtan.
- Judges 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 cut down the grove that is by it:
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Judges 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?
- 2 Kings 23:14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- 2 Chronicles 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 of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3–4 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 the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. …
- Deuteronomy 7:25–26 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 LORD thy God. …
- Deuteronomy 12:2–3 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: …
- Deuteronomy 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.
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Topics
- Alliances With idolaters forbidden
- Company Evil
- Fellowship With the wicked
- Iconoclasm Idols to be destroyed
- Israel Tables renewed
- Jealousy Attributed to God
- Miscegenation Moses
- Revelation The law is revealed
- Temptation General scriptures concerning
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Hebrew and Strong’s
- But ye shall destroy כִּי kî Conjunction תִּתֹּצוּן tittōṣûn נָתַץ Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
- their altars אֶת ʾet Object marker מִזְבְּחֹתָם mizbĕḥōtām מִזְבֵּחַ Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: third person masculine plural
- break תְּשַׁבֵּרוּן tĕšabbērûn שָׁבַר Verb · piel imperfect, second person masculine plural
- their images וְאֶת wĕʾet Object marker · with and מַצֵּבֹתָם maṣṣēbōtām מַצֵּבָה Noun · feminine plural construct · with suffix: third person masculine plural
- and cut down תִּכְרֹתוּן tikrōtûn כָּרַת Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
- their groves וְאֶת wĕʾet Object marker · with and אֲשֵׁרָיו ʾăšērāyw אֲשֵׁרָה Proper name · with suffix: third person masculine singular
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