(A)You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And (C)you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their [a]wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not (D)worship the Lord your God with such things.

“But you shall seek the (E)place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His (F)dwelling[b] place; and there you shall go.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:3 Heb. Asherim
  2. Deuteronomy 12:5 home

13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

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14 but in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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(A)Then Solomon built a [a]high place for (B)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on (C)the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:7 A place for pagan worship

43 And (A)he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless (B)the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

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