Micah 5:14 {13}
Good News Translation
I will pull down the images of the goddess Asherah in your land and destroy your cities.

New Revised Standard Version
and I will uproot your sacred poles from among you and destroy your towns.

Contemporary English Version
together with the sacred poles and even your towns.

New American Bible
I will tear out the asherahs from your midst, and destroy your cities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

cities.

Micah 5:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will take away thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots.

Context
The Remnant of Jacob
13And I will destroy thy graven things, and thy statues, out of the midst of thee: and thou shalt no more adore the works of thy hands. 14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.15And I will execute vengeance in wrath, and in indignation, among all the nations that have not given ear.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

2 Kings 17:10
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made; and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.

Isaiah 27:9
Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

Lamentations 2:2
Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.

Nahum 1:14
And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

Micah 5:13
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