John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 33:52

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, etc.] 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 (<032601>Leviticus 26:1), and destroy all their molten images; of gold, silver, etc. and quite pluck down all their high places; their temples, groves, and altars built upon them.

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