The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had already been commanded (see the marginal references); and Nu…

And destroy all their pictures.— The word which is here rendered pictures denotes “imagery,” or “engraved figure…

Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you
Not at once,…

Now that they were to pass over Jordan, they were entering again into temptation to follow idols; and they are threatened that, if they spared eith…