Numbers 33:52 “you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy…”

Numbers 33:52

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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:

World English Bible

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

American Standard Version

then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye shall then driue out all the inhabitants of the land before you, and destroy all their pictures, and breake asunder all their images of metall, and plucke downe all their hie places.

Darby Translation

then ye shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ye shall destroy all their figured images, and all their molten images shall ye destroy, and all their high places shall ye lay waste;

Young's Literal Translation

then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

Bible in Basic English

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

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Cross references

“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:”

Exodus 23:24 Deuteronomy 20:16–18 Deuteronomy 7:2–5 Judges 2:2 Exodus 23:31–33 Exodus 34:12–17

Exodus 23:24 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 20:16–18 · BSB

However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deuteronomy 7:2–5 · BSB

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Judges 2:2 · BSB

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?

Exodus 23:31–33 · BSB

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:12–17 · BSB

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

Also

Leviticus 26:1 Psalm 106:34–36

Leviticus 26:1 · BSB

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

Psalm 106:34–36 · BSB

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

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

In context

51“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

53You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

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