A Command to Destroy the Objects of Canaanite Worship. The substance of this is given also in Exodus 23:24; Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 12:2 f. With Numbers 33:55 cf. Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3.

Numbers 33:52. figured stones: stones covered with idolatrous emblems high places: since these could be demolished, the expression must here mean not natural heights (Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12) but artificial mounds or shrines (cf. 1 Kings 11:7).

Numbers 33:54. Render, wheresoever the lot falleth for any (family or clan), to that it shall belong. The lot was an appeal to God (cf. 1 Samuel 14:41 mg., Acts 1:24; Proverbs 16:33; Jonah 1:7).

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