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Iconophilia and Iconophobia
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The Old Testament
Exodus 23: 24
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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.
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| Exodus 34: 13
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13: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
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Numbers 33: 52
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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:
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Deuteronomy 7: 5
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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.
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Deuteronomy 7: 25- 26
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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.
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Judges 2: 2
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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?
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Jeremiah 50: 2
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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.
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