Numbers 33:52 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Ye shall drive out - not, however, by expulsion, but extermination (Deuteronomy 7:1). Destroy all their pictures - obelisks for idolatrous worship (see the note at Leviticus 26:1).

Molten images - by metonymy for all their groves and altars, and materials of worship on the tops of hills.

Quite pluck down all their high places, х tashmiyduw (H8045)] - abolish, demolish utterly (cf. Leviticus 26:30; Esther 3:6).

Numbers 33:52

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: