Cross references
Deuteronomy 16:21
Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 16:21 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Chronicles 33:3 (6 votes) and 2 Kings 17:16 (5 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 21 to Ezekiel 46.
Which verses does Deuteronomy 16:21 point to?
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- 2 Chronicles 33:36 votes
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- 2 Kings 17:165 votes
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- Exodus 34:134 votes
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- 2 Kings 21:34 votes
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- Judges 3:73 votes
So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
- 1 Kings 14:153 votes
For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 1 Kings 16:333 votes
Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
- Deuteronomy 7:52 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.
Which verses point to Deuteronomy 16:21?
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