Numbers 33:52

52 As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

Numbers 33:52 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:52

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you
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 ( Leviticus 26:1 ) ,

and destroy all their molten images;
of gold, silver

and quite pluck down all their high places;
their temples, groves, and altars built upon them.

Numbers 33:52 In-Context

50 The LORD said to Moses on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho,

51 "Tell the Israelites, 'You will be crossing the Jordan River and entering Canaan.

52 As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

53 Take possession of the land and live there, because I will give it to you for your own.

54 Divide the land among your families by drawing lots. Give more land to larger families and less land to smaller ones. The land must be given to each family by drawing lots. Divide it among your ancestors' tribes.