13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
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Thy graven images also will I cut off - Thou shalt be no more an idolatrous people.
Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee,.... The former were such as were made of wood or stone; the latter statues, such as were molten or cast, and made of gold, silver, or brass; Such as the Jews sometimes worshipped, and are now found in the apostate church of Rome; but will have no place in the Christian churches, or those so called, in the latter day. The Jews indeed have had no idols or idolatrous worship among them since the Babylonish captivity; and the prophet here speaks, not of what would be found among them, and removed at their conversion; but of what was in his time, or had been, or would be again, but should not be in future time, when they should turn to the Lord, and be like dew among the people; and so we are to understand some following passages. The Targum is,
"I will cut off the images of the people, and their statues:''
and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands; as not to fall down to idols and worship them, so neither to trust in carnal privileges, ceremonial rites, observances of the traditions of the elders, or any works of righteousness done by them, which they had been prone unto.
graven images . . . cut off--(Compare Isaiah 2:8, Isaiah 2:18-21; Isaiah 30:22; Zac 13:2).
standing images--statues.
Graven images - This was verified among the Jews, who to this day hate images for divine uses, and learnt this in their captivity.
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