image. This could not have been an image of. human being. The height and breadth are out of all proportion for this; the former being one to ten instead of one to six.. figure drawn on this scale, will at once be seen to be impossible. Having determined that it is. human figure, tradition then assumes it to have been. proportional figure "on. pedestal", or simply "a bust on. pillar". But there is nothing in the text to suggest this. It would exactly suit an Asherah (App-42). The Hebrew tzelem denotes something shaped by cutting or carving. Ezekiel 16:17, and Dan 23:14, practically make this certain. See the verb in Ezekiel 7:20. and compare what is said in Numbers 33:52.
height... breadth. See above note.
threescore... six. The numbers of man (App-10). Note the six instruments (compare Daniel 5:7; Daniel 5:10; Daniel 5:15). See note on 1 Samuel 17:4.