Êxodo 23:24

24 Não te inclinarás diante dos seus deuses, nem os servirás, nem farás conforme as suas obras; Antes os derrubarás totalmente, e quebrarás de todo as suas colunas.

Êxodo 23:24 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 23:24

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods
In a way of honour to them, doing them reverence, expressing thereby an high esteem of them, trust in them, and expectation of good things from them;

nor serve them:
in any kind of service in which they usually are served by their votaries; as by offering sacrifice, incense, libations or by praying to them or praising of them, or in whatsoever way they are served by idolaters:

nor do after their works;
the works of the worshippers of idols; all those wicked works in general done by them, which should not be imitated; and those particularly relating to the service and worship of their deities:

but thou shalt overthrow them;
the heathen gods; utterly destroy them, and break them to pieces, or demolish their temples, the idolatrous houses built for them, and their altars; for the word has the signification, of demolishing buildings, and razing up the very foundations of them:

and quite break down their images;
or, "in breaking break down" ^F15; utterly and entirely break them down, break them to shivers, all their statues of gold or silver, brass, wood, or stone, or of whatsoever materials they were made; none were to be spared, nor any remains of them to be seen, that they might not prove a snare to any to worship them; and hereby they were to express their detestation of idolatry, and their strict and close adherence to the true God, and the worship of him as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (rbvt rbv) "confringendo confringes", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, "perfringendo perfringito", Piscator.

Êxodo 23:24 In-Context

22 Mas se, na verdade, ouvires a sua voz, e fizeres tudo o que eu disser, então serei inimigo dos teus inimigos, e adversário dos teus adversários.

23 Porque o meu anjo irá adiante de ti, e te introduzirá na terra dos amorreus, dos heteus, dos perizeus, dos cananeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus; e eu os aniquilarei.

24 Não te inclinarás diante dos seus deuses, nem os servirás, nem farás conforme as suas obras; Antes os derrubarás totalmente, e quebrarás de todo as suas colunas.

25 Servireis, pois, ao Senhor vosso Deus, e ele abençoará o vosso pão e a vossa água; e eu tirarei do meio de vós as enfermidades.

26 Na tua terra não haverá mulher que aborte, nem estéril; o número dos teus dias completarei.