13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a](A)

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  1. Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

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13 But you shall (A)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (B)cut down their wooden images

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11 Then the Israelites did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord(B) and served the Baals.(C)

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11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

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Israel’s Unfaithfulness

11 Then the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals;

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13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

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13 They forsook the Lord (A)and served [a]Baal and the [b]Ashtoreths.

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  1. Judges 2:13 A Canaanite god
  2. Judges 2:13 Canaanite goddesses

33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole(A) and did more(B) to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

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33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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33 (A)And Ahab made a [a]wooden image. Ahab (B)did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

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  1. 1 Kings 16:33 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess

he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder(A) and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (A)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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They will not look to the altars,(A)
    the work of their hands,(B)
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles[a](C)
    and the incense altars their fingers(D) have made.

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  1. Isaiah 17:8 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

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He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his (A)fingers have made,
Nor the [a]wooden images nor the incense altars.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:8 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities