For in that day
When deliverance shall be wrought; when men shall be convinced of
the vanity and insufficiency of their idols to help them, and of
their sin in worshipping them; when they shall be brought to
repentance for it, and turn to the Lord as an evidence of it:
every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his
idols of
gold;
with contempt and abhorrence of them, as the word F23
signifies; every man "his" own idol, and even those that were of
the greatest value, which were made of gold and silver:
which your own hands have made unto you [for] a
sin;
their idols were the work of their own hands, and were made by
them in order to commit sin with, the sin of idolatry; or sin may
be put for the punishment of sin, which is the issue and
consequence of such practices: or it may be rendered, "which your
hands of sin", or "sinful hands, have made" F24; it
was a sin to make such idols, especially with a view to worship
them; it was a sin to worship them; and the fruit of it was
deserved punishment.