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7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; {b} ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
(b) God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. De 12:3.
7:5 Their graves - Which idolaters planted about the temples and altars of their Gods. Hereby God designed to take away whatsoever might bring their idolatry to remembrance, or occasion the reviving of it.
7:1-11 Here is a strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those who are in communion with God, must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. Limiting the orders to destroy, to the nations here mentioned, plainly shows that after ages were not to draw this into a precedent. A proper understanding of the evil of sin, and of the mystery of a crucified Saviour, will enable us to perceive the justice of God in all his punishments, temporal and eternal. We must deal decidedly with our lusts that war against our souls; let us not show them any mercy, but mortify, and crucify, and utterly destroy them. Thousands in the world that now is, have been undone by ungodly marriages; for there is more likelihood that the good will be perverted, than that the bad will be converted. Those who, in choosing yoke-fellows, keep not within the bounds of a profession of religion, cannot promise themselves helps meet for them.
Altars Asherah Asherim Ashe'rim Break Broken Burn Burned Cut Dash Deal Destroy Engraved Hew Holy Idols Images Pieces Pillars Poles Pulled Sacred Shatter Smash Standing Statues Stones Tear Trees
Altars Asherah Asherim Ashe'rim Break Broken Burn Burned Cut Dash Deal Destroy Engraved Hew Holy Idols Images Pieces Pillars Poles Pulled Sacred Shatter Smash Standing Statues Stones Tear Trees