Deuteronomy 13:16

¹⁴Evil men have gone out from you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their land to fall away, saying, Let us go and worship other gods, whom ye knew not,

¹⁵then thou shalt inquire and ask, and search diligently, and behold, if the thing is clearly true, and this abomination has taken place among you,

— Deuteronomy 13:16 —

¹⁷And all its spoils thou shalt gather into its public ways, and thou shalt burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord thy God; and it shall be uninhabited forever, it shall not be built again.

¹⁸And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and show thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he swore to thy fathers;