Charles Ellicott Commentary Leviticus 26:30

"And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you." — Leviticus 26:30 (ASV)

And I will destroy your high places. —Though these elevated places were also used for the worship of Jehovah (Judges 6:25–26; Judges 13:16–23; 1 Samuel 7:10; 1 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 12:3; 1 Chronicles 21:26, and others), the context shows that the high places here are those that were dedicated to idolatrous worship (Numbers 22:41; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 12:2; Joshua 13:17, and others). By the destruction of these places of idolatrous worship, the Israelites would see how utterly worthless those deities were whom they preferred to the God who had accomplished such remarkable redemption for them.

And cut down your images. —Better, and cut down your sun-images, or solar-statues, that is, idolatrous pillars of the sun-god (Isaiah 17:8; 2 Chronicles 14:5; 2 Chronicles 34:7).

And cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols. —Nothing could show greater contempt for both the idol-worshippers and the idols than the picture given here. When the apostate Israelites have succumbed to the sword, famine, and pestilence, they will not even have a decent burial, but their carcasses will be mixed up with the shattered remains of their gods, and thus form one dunghill. Similar is the picture given by Ezekiel: Your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols, and I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars (Ezekiel 6:4–5).