Deuteronomy 12:1-4
Yahweh’s Chosen Place of Worship
12“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess aall the days you live on the 1earth. 2“You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ahigh mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3“aAnd you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and burn their 1Asherim with fire, and you shall cut the graven images of their gods in pieces and bdestroy their name from that place. 4“You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God.