Êxodo 23:24

24 Não se curvem diante dos deuses deles, nem lhes prestem culto, nem sigam as suas práticas. Destruam-nos totalmente e quebrem as suas colunas sagradas.

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 23:24 In-Context

22 Se vocês ouvirem atentamente o que ele disser e fizerem tudo o que lhes ordeno, serei inimigo dos seus inimigos, e adversário dos seus adversários.

23 O meu anjo irá à frente de vocês e os fará chegar à terra dos amorreus, dos hititas, dos ferezeus, dos cananeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus, e eu os exterminarei.

24 Não se curvem diante dos deuses deles, nem lhes prestem culto, nem sigam as suas práticas. Destruam-nos totalmente e quebrem as suas colunas sagradas.

25 Prestem culto ao SENHOR, o Deus de vocês, e ele os abençoará, dando a vocês alimento e água. Tirarei a doença do meio de vocês.

26 Em sua terra nenhuma grávida perderá o filho nem haverá mulher estéril. Farei completar-se o tempo de duração da vida de vocês.