Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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Gill's Exposition
Turn ye not unto idols,.... From the one only true and living God to them that are not gods, as the word used signifies, who are nothing; for, as the apostle says, an idol is nothing in the world, Co1…
Adam Clarke
Turn ye not unto idols - אלילם elilim, literally nothings; and to this St. Paul seems to allude Co1 8:4, where he says, We know that an idol is Nothing in the world.
Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to…
Cambridge Bible
Turn ye not unto As in Lev 19:19 (A.V. -Regard not"), and Lev 20:6.
idols ("ělîlîm) things of noughtR.V. mg. See reference there. The Heb. word occurs only here and Lev 26:1 in Pentateuch; a word of…
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