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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 12:3 - King James

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De 12:3 King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
And ye shall overthrow their altars--piles of turf or small stones.

and break their pillars--Before the art of sculpture was known, the statues of idols were only rude blocks of colored stones.
 
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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.