You shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Tree. See Genesis xxi. 33. All the monuments of idolatry must be destroyed. The very names of the idols must be abhorred and obliterated, (Exodus xxiii. 13,) to show that they have lost possession of the country. So (ver. 5,) to put his name there, means to take possession of a place.
