Lexicon :: Strong's H4676 - maṣṣēḇâ

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it

“This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.”

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’ ”

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me.

Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him ​— ​a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave still today.

“Do not bow in worship to their gods, and do not serve them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them[fn] and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

“Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.

“Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

“Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images.

“Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every[fn] place.

“and do not set up a sacred pillar; the LORD your God hates them.

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.

They brought out the pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it,

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for until then the Israelites were burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.[fn]

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one.[fn] Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

On that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

“He will smash the sacred pillars of the sun temple[fn][fn] in the land of Egypt and burn the temples of the Egyptian gods.’ ”

“He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.

Israel is a lush[fn] vine;

it yields fruit for itself.

The more his fruit increased,

the more he increased the altars.

The better his land produced,

the better they made the sacred pillars.

I will remove your carved images

and sacred pillars from you

so that you will no longer worship

the work of your hands.