Iconoclasm Bible Verses

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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Idols to Be Destroyed

EXODUS 23:24In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

EXODUS 34:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

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

NUMBERS 33:52In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

DEUTERONOMY 7:5,25,26Verses in the Bible

  • 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
    Deuteronomy 7:5 Meaning
  • 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
    Deuteronomy 7:25 Meaning
  • 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
    Deuteronomy 7:26 Meaning

DEUTERONOMY 12:1-4Verses in the Bible

  • 1 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
    Deuteronomy 12:1 Meaning
  • 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
    Deuteronomy 12:2 Meaning
  • 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
    Deuteronomy 12:3 Meaning
  • 4 Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
    Deuteronomy 12:4 Meaning

JUDGES 2:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

JEREMIAH 50:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Destroyed by


• Jacob

GENESIS 35:2-4Verses in the Bible

  • 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
    Genesis 35:2 Meaning
  • 3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
    Genesis 35:3 Meaning
  • 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
    Genesis 35:4 Meaning

• Moses

EXODUS 32:19,20Verses in the Bible

  • 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
    Exodus 32:19 Meaning
  • 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
    Exodus 32:20 Meaning

• Gideon

JUDGES 6:28-32Verses in the Bible

  • 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
    Judges 6:28 Meaning
  • 29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
    Judges 6:29 Meaning
  • 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
    Judges 6:30 Meaning
  • 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
    Judges 6:31 Meaning
  • 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
    Judges 6:32 Meaning

• David

2 SAMUEL 5:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

1 CHRONICLES 14:12In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

• Jehu

2 KINGS 10:26-28Verses in the Bible

• Jehoiada

2 KINGS 11:18In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.

• Hezekiah

2 KINGS 18:3-6Verses in the Bible

  • 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
    2 Kings 18:3 Meaning
  • 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
    2 Kings 18:4 Meaning
  • 5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
    2 Kings 18:5 Meaning
  • 6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
    2 Kings 18:6 Meaning

• Josiah

2 KINGS 23:4-20Verses in the Bible

  • 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
    2 Kings 23:4 Meaning
  • 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
    2 Kings 23:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
    2 Kings 23:6 Meaning
  • 7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
    2 Kings 23:7 Meaning
  • 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
    2 Kings 23:8 Meaning
  • 9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
    2 Kings 23:9 Meaning
  • 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
    2 Kings 23:10 Meaning
  • 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
    2 Kings 23:11 Meaning
  • 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
    2 Kings 23:12 Meaning
  • 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
    2 Kings 23:13 Meaning
  • 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
    2 Kings 23:14 Meaning
  • 15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
    2 Kings 23:15 Meaning
  • 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
    2 Kings 23:16 Meaning
  • 17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
    2 Kings 23:17 Meaning
  • 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
    2 Kings 23:18 Meaning
  • 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
    2 Kings 23:19 Meaning
  • 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
    2 Kings 23:20 Meaning

• Asa

2 CHRONICLES 14:3-5Verses in the Bible

  • 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
    2 Chronicles 14:3 Meaning
  • 4 And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
    2 Chronicles 14:4 Meaning
  • 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
    2 Chronicles 14:5 Meaning

2 CHRONICLES 15:8-16Verses in the Bible

  • 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord.
    2 Chronicles 15:8 Meaning
  • 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
    2 Chronicles 15:9 Meaning
  • 10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
    2 Chronicles 15:10 Meaning
  • 11 And they offered unto the Lord the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
    2 Chronicles 15:11 Meaning
  • 12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
    2 Chronicles 15:12 Meaning
  • 13 That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
    2 Chronicles 15:13 Meaning
  • 14 And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
    2 Chronicles 15:14 Meaning
  • 15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.
    2 Chronicles 15:15 Meaning
  • 16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
    2 Chronicles 15:16 Meaning

• Jehoshaphat

2 CHRONICLES 17:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2 CHRONICLES 19:3In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

• Jews

2 CHRONICLES 30:14In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

• Manasseh

2 CHRONICLES 33:15In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

• See Idolatry

Sources

The King James Bible text is sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). Bible topic categories and verse references are from Nave's Topical Bible (1896) by Orville James Nave (1841–1917). Popularity rankings are based on search volume data from the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool.


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