Those glorious creatures, which are to be admired as the wonderful works of God, but not to be set up in God's stead, nor worshipped as gods: see Job 31:26. By condemning the most specious and reasonable of all idolaters, he intimates how absurd a thing it is to worship stocks and stones, the works of men's hands. Which I have not commanded, i.e. I have forbidden, to wit, Exo 20. Such negative expressions are oft emphatical, and imply the contrary, as Proverbs 10:2, Proverbs 17:21 24:23.
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Deuteronomy 17:3
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;