John Gill Commentary Numbers 33:52

John Gill Commentary

Numbers 33:52

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Numbers 33:52

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:" — Numbers 33:52 (ASV)

Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you
Not at once, but gradually; and the sense is, that they should use their utmost endeavours wholly to extirpate them:

and destroy all their pictures ;
their idolatrous ones; the pictures of their gods, or the statues and figured stones of them: the Targum of Jonathan interprets it, "all the temples of their worship;" and the Jerusalem Targum, "all their idols;" so called, as Jarchi notes, because they covered the floor with a pavement of marble stones, to worship upon them by the stretching out of their hands and feet, according to (Leviticus 26:1) .

and destroy all their molten images ;
of gold, silver

and quite pluck down all their high places ;
their temples, groves, and altars built upon them.