Numeri 33:52

Clementine Latin Vulgate

disperdite cunctos habitatores terræ illius : confringite titulos, et statuas comminuite, atque omnia excelsa vastate,

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
disperdite cunctos habitatores terræ illius: confringite titulos, et statuas comminuite, atque omnia excelsa vastate,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
disperdite cunctos habitatores terrae ante vos, confringite omnes imagines eorum et omnes statuas comminuite atque omnia excelsa vastate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 23:24, Exodus 23:31-33, Exodus 34:12-17, Deuteronomy 7:2-5, Deuteronomy 7:25, Deuteronomy 7:26, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3, Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 20:16-18, Joshua 11:11, Joshua 11:12, Joshua 23:7, Judges 2:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 6:19 - General Deuteronomy 31:5 - according Joshua 9:7 - how shall Joshua 9:24 - the Lord Joshua 16:10 - the Canaanites dwell Joshua 17:12 - General Joshua 23:5 - as the Lord 1 Kings 11:7 - build an high 2 Kings 23:14 - he brake Psalms 78:58 - their high Psalms 106:34 - concerning Isaiah 2:16 - pleasant pictures

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, c.

and quite pluck down all their high places their temples, groves, and altars built upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had been already enjoined (see the marginal references); and Numbers 33:54 is substantially a repetition from Exo. 26:53-55. But the solemn warning of Numbers 33:55-56 is new. A call for it had been furnished by their past transgressions in the matter of Baal-peor, and by their imperfect fulfillment, at the first, of Moses’ orders in the Midianite war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 33:52. Ye shall - destroy all their pictures — משכיתם maskiyotham, from שחה sachah, to be like, or resemble, either pictures, carved work, or embroidery, as far as these things were employed to exhibit the abominations of idolatry. Molten images צלמי מסכתם tsalmey massechotham, metallic talismanical figures, made under certain constellations, and supposed in consequence to be possessed of some extraordinary influences and virtues.