Leviticus 26:30 “I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and hea…”

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

World English Bible

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

American Standard Version

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will also destroy your hye places, and cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

Darby Translation

And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

Bible in Basic English

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

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Cross references

“I will destroy”

2 Kings 23:20 Isaiah 27:9 Ezekiel 6:3–6 Ezekiel 6:13 2 Chronicles 34:3–7 1 Kings 13:2

2 Kings 23:20 · BSB

On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 27:9 · BSB

Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standin…

Ezekiel 6:3–6 · BSB

You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy yo…

Ezekiel 6:13 · BSB

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragr…

2 Chronicles 34:3–7 · BSB

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carv…

1 Kings 13:2 · BSB

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high pl…

“my soul”

Leviticus 26:11 Leviticus 26:15 Leviticus 20:23 Psalm 89:38 Jeremiah 14:19 Psalm 78:58

Leviticus 26:11 · BSB

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

Leviticus 26:15 · BSB

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Leviticus 20:23 · BSB

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Psalm 89:38 · BSB

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

Jeremiah 14:19 · BSB

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Psalm 78:58 · BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

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