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then you 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:
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Total Spiritual Cleansing
Commentators explain that this command was comprehensive, covering every form of idolatry. It included destroying 'figured stones' (carved idols or decorated temple floors), 'molten images' (metal statues), and 'high places' (the altars, groves, and temples built on hills for pagan worship). The goal was a complete spiritual cleansing of the land, leaving no trace of its former idolatrous practices.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had already been commanded (see the marginal references); and Nu…
19th Century
Anglican
And destroy all their pictures.— The word which is here rendered pictures denotes “imagery,” or “engraved figure…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you Not at once,…
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