Numbers 33:52

52 you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.

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 While they were camped near the Jordan River on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

51 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: When you cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,

52 you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.

53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given it to you to occupy.

54 You must distribute the land among the clans by sacred lot and in proportion to their size. A larger portion of land will be allotted to each of the larger clans, and a smaller portion will be allotted to each of the smaller clans. The decision of the sacred lot is final. In this way, the portions of land will be divided among your ancestral tribes.