Ulangan 7:5
Konteks7:5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, 1 cut down their sacred Asherah poles, 2 and burn up their idols.
Ulangan 7:25
Konteks7:25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent 3 to the Lord your God.
Ulangan 9:21
Konteks9:21 As for your sinful thing 4 that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, 5 ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
[7:5] 1 sn Sacred pillars. The Hebrew word (מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) denotes a standing pillar, usually made of stone. Its purpose was to mark the presence of a shrine or altar thought to have been visited by deity. Though sometimes associated with pure worship of the
[7:5] 2 sn Sacred Asherah poles. A leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon was Asherah, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles (Hebrew אֲשֵׁרִים [’asherim], as here). They were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
[7:25] 3 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anything detestable to the
[9:21] 4 tn Heb “your sin.” This is a metonymy in which the effect (sin) stands for the cause (the metal calf).