Deuteronomy 12:1-4

The One Place of Worship

1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land.
2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
4 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.

Cross References 9

  • 1. Psalms 119:5
  • 2. Deuteronomy 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 6:15; 1 Kings 8:40; Ezekiel 20:19
  • 3. S Numbers 21:28
  • 4. 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; 2 Kings 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:6,13
  • 5. 2 Kings 11:18; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 7:5; Judges 2:2
  • 6. S Exodus 32:20
  • 7. Exodus 34:13; 1 Kings 14:15,23
  • 8. S Exodus 23:13
  • 9. ver 30; 2 Kings 17:15; Jeremiah 10:2
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