173. Stone Idols

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Maskith, here rendered “image,” is in Numbers 33:5252Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: (Numbers 33:52), (where the word is in the plural) translated “pictures.” Some writers suppose that eben maskith, “figure stone,” is a stone formed into a figure; that is, an idol of stone in distinction to one made of iron or of wood. See Keil, Com. in loco.
Others, however, regard it as referring to stones with figures or hieroglyphic inscriptions on them; “pictured” or “engraven stones,” which in that age of idolatry were liable to be worshiped.