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Deuteronomy 12:2 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 12 · verse 2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:Deuteronomy 12:2 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 12:2 in context
1These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- mountainshara mountain or range of hillsH2022 →
- utterlyʼâbadproperly, to wander awayH6 →
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- possessyârashto occupyH3423 →
- placesmâqôwmproperly, a standingH4725 →
- servedʻâbadto workH5647 →
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From those great original truths, That there is a God, and that there is but one God, arise those great fundamental laws, That that God is to be worshipped, and he only, and that therefore we are to have no other God before him: this is the first commandment, and the second is a guard upon it, or a hedge about it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4