Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver,.... Images made of solid silver, covered with rich and costly garments; or images covered and decorated with plates of silver; see Jer…
Barnes' Notes
Ye shall defile also - That is, you shall regard them as polluted and abominable. This is language which is often used respecting their treatment of the images and altars of idolatry when they became…
The closing words of the foregoing paragraph (You shall be left as a beacon upon a mountain) some understand as a promise that a remnant of them should be reserved as monuments of mercy; and here the…
Cambridge Bible
The renunciation of idolatry.
Ye shall defile i.e. "desecrate" (2Ki 23:8 ff.).
covering … ornament Overlaying … plating, as R.V. An idol consisted of a core of wood or inferior metal, overlaid with a…
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