Ye shall drive out; not by banishing, but by destroying them, as it is explained, Deuteronomy 7:1,2, and elsewhere. Their pictures seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship. See Deuteronomy 16:22. Molten images. See Exodus 23:24,32 Deu 7:5. High places, i.e. by a metonymy, the chapels, altars, groves, or other means of worship there set up, for the hills themselves could not be destroyed by them. See Poole on "Deuteronomy 12:2".

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