Deuteronomy 7:1-5

Deuteronomy 7. The native races of Canaan are to be exterminated and everything connected with their religion destroyed, lest Israel be seduced by them to idolatry. For the list of nations, see Genesis 15:19 * and Exodus 3:8 *; see also Deuteronomy 1:4.

Deuteronomy 7:2. utterly destroy: Deuteronomy 2:34 *.

Deuteronomy 7:4. me: render Yahweh (same Heb. consonants). Moses is the speaker.

Deuteronomy 7:5. pillars (pp. 98f.): lofty altars, obelisks, used in heathen, perhaps sun-worship. Asherim: p. 100, 1 Kings 15:13 *. (A.V. groves; so Welsh, following LXX, Vulg.), representations in wood of the old Semitic goddess Ashera, mentioned (Ashirta) in the Tell el-Amarna tablets (p. 55). That pillars and Asherim are so often mentioned together supports the theory that the first were such altars as were used in sacrificing to the second.