Deuteronomy 7:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the Lord’s anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire. ⁵ This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire, ⁶ because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations^[a] on the face of the earth.”