Their groves - Understand this as their idols of wood; and see the note on Deuteronomy 7:5.

Destroy the names. —The substitution in later times of bosheth for baal in the names Jerubbaal (Jerubbesheth), E…

And you shall overthrow their altars
Which were of stone, as Jarchi observes; whereas the altar ordered to be made b…

Moses comes to the statutes he was to entrust to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. The Israelites are charged not to br…