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Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 12:2 BSB

Deuteronomy 12:2 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 7:5 (8 votes) and Numbers 33:51–52 (5 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Exodus 23 to 1 Thessalonians 3.

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Which verses does Deuteronomy 12:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Deuteronomy 7:58 votes

    Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

  2. Numbers 33:51–525 votes

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  3. 2 Kings 16:45 votes

    And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  4. Exodus 34:12–174 votes

    Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst. Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles. …

  5. Deuteronomy 7:25–264 votes

    You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

  6. 2 Kings 17:10–114 votes

    They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

  7. Jeremiah 3:63 votes

    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

  8. Ezekiel 20:28–293 votes

    When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings. So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

  9. Exodus 23:242 votes

    You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

  10. Numbers 22:412 votes

    The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the outskirts of the camp of the people.

  11. Judges 2:22 votes

    and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

  12. 2 Kings 23:132 votes
  13. Hosea 4:132 votes

Which verses point to Deuteronomy 12:2?

The 10 strongest of 20.