Numbers 33:52

52 force out all the people who live there. Destroy all of their carved statues and metal idols. Wreck all of 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 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan River across from Jericho, the Lord spoke to Moses. He said,

51 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you cross the Jordan River and go into Canaan,

52 force out all the people who live there. Destroy all of their carved statues and metal idols. Wreck all of their places of worship.

53 Take over the land and settle there, because I have given this land to you to own.

54 Throw lots to divide up the land by family groups, giving larger portions to larger family groups and smaller portions to smaller family groups. The land will be given as the lots decide; each tribe will get its own land.