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You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Verse 2. Tree. See Genesis 21:33. All the monuments of idolatry must be destroyed. The very names of the idols must be abhorred and obliterated, (Exodus 23:13,) to shew that they have lost possession of the country. So, (verse 5,) to put his name there, means to take possession of a place.
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