Numbers 33:52

52 disperdite cunctos habitatores regionis illius confringite titulos et statuas comminuite atque omnia excelsa vastate

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 ubi locutus est Dominus ad Mosen

51 praecipe filiis Israhel et dic ad eos quando transieritis Iordanem intrantes terram Chanaan

52 disperdite cunctos habitatores regionis illius confringite titulos et statuas comminuite atque omnia excelsa vastate

53 mundantes terram et habitantes in ea ego enim dedi vobis illam in possessionem

54 quam dividetis vobis sorte pluribus dabitis latiorem et paucis angustiorem singulis ut sors ceciderit ita tribuetur hereditas per tribus et familias possessio dividetur