Bible Cross References
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Exodus 23:24
Do not bow down to their gods or worship them, and do not adopt their religious practices. Destroy their gods and break down their sacred stone pillars.
Exodus 23:31-33
31
I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out as you advance.
32
Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
33
Do not let those people live in your country; if you do, they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will be a fatal trap for you."
Exodus 34:12-17
12
Do not make any treaties with the people of the country into which you are going, because this could be a fatal trap for you.
13
Instead, tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.
14
"Do not worship any other god, because I, the LORD, tolerate no rivals.
15
Do not make any treaties with the people of the country, because when they worship their pagan gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you to join them, and you will be tempted to eat the food they offer to their gods.
16
Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.
17
"Do not make gods of metal and worship them.
Deuteronomy 7:2-5
2
When the LORD your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy.
3
Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,
4
because then they would lead your children away from the LORD to worship other gods. If that happens, the LORD will be angry with you and destroy you at once.
5
So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols.
Deuteronomy 7:25-5
Deuteronomy 7:26-5
Deuteronomy 12:2
In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.
Deuteronomy 12:3
Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.
Deuteronomy 12:30
After the LORD destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Do not worship the LORD your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the LORD hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.
Deuteronomy 20:16-18
16
"But when you capture cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, kill everyone.
17
Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the LORD ordered you to do.
18
Kill them, so that they will not make you sin against the LORD by teaching you to do all the disgusting things that they do in the worship of their gods.
Joshua 11:11
They put everyone there to death; no one was left alive, and the city was burned.
Joshua 11:12
Joshua captured all these cities and their kings, putting everyone to death, just as Moses, the LORD's servant, had commanded.
Joshua 23:7
and then you will not associate with these peoples left among you or speak the names of their gods or use those names in taking vows or worship those gods or bow down to them.
Judges 2:2
You must not make any covenant with the people who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.' But you have not done what I told you. You have done just the opposite!