demolish

verb

«demolish» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Here God commands Israel to wipe out the Canaanites' idols and their high places, where idols were worshiped.

Interpretation. Tradition reads this as a command to remove idol worship from the land so that Israel would not be led astray.

To knock something down completely so that it is destroyed. tree →

then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. (Torah NUM.33.52, JPS 1917) tree →

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