Éxodo 23:24

24 No rindas culto a los dioses de estas naciones, ni los sirvas de ninguna manera, ni imites sus prácticas malvadas. En cambio, destruye sus ídolos por completo y destroza sus columnas sagradas.

Éxodo 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.

Éxodo 23:24 In-Context

22 Pero si te aseguras de obedecerlo y sigues todas mis instrucciones, entonces yo seré enemigo de tus enemigos y me opondré a todos los que se te opongan.

23 Pues mi ángel irá delante de ti y te llevará a la tierra de los amorreos, de los hititas, de los ferezeos, de los cananeos, de los heveos y de los jebuseos, para que vivas en ella. Yo los destruiré por completo.

24 No rindas culto a los dioses de estas naciones, ni los sirvas de ninguna manera, ni imites sus prácticas malvadas. En cambio, destruye sus ídolos por completo y destroza sus columnas sagradas.

25 »Sirve sólo al Señor
tu Dios. Si lo haces, yo te bendeciré
con alimento y agua, y te protegeré de enfermedades.

26 No habrá en tu tierra ninguna mujer que pierda su embarazo o sea estéril; te daré una vida larga y plena.