Study it in the app“You shall completely wipe out all the places where the nations that you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every leafy tree.”
You shall completely wipe outאַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּןallאֶת כָּלthe placesהַמְּקֹמוֹתwhereאֲשֶׁר שָׁםthe nationsהַגּוֹיִםthatאֲשֶׁרyouאַתֶּםare dispossessingיֹרְשִׁים אֹתָםservedעָבְדוּtheir gods,אֶת אֱלֹהֵיהֶםonעַלthe highהָרָמִיםmountainsהֶהָרִיםand onוְעַלthe hillsהַגְּבָעוֹתand underוְתַחַתeveryכָּלleafyרַעֲנָןtree.עֵץ
destroy
To make someone or something disappear completely.
Where else “abed” appearsplace
A place, a spot.
Where else “mekomot” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appearsdispossess
To drive others out of their land.
Where else “yorshim” appearsworship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “avdu” appearsgods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “elohe” appearsbe high
To be up above, raised in honor.
Where else “ramim” appearsmountain
A great rise of land, like Sinai or Zion.
Where else “harim” appearshill
Hill.
Where else “gevaot” appearsgreen, leafy
Green, leafy: full of leaves; also fresh, flourishing.
Where else “raanan” appearstree
A tall plant with trunk and branches, giving fruit, shade or timber.
Where else “ets” appears1These are the statutes and the rules that you shall be careful to carry out in the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the ground.
2 · This verse (above)
3You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.
