Deuteronomy 16:22

Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

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WEBBE

Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which the LORD your God hates.

BSB

and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

KJV

Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

ASV

Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.

BBE

You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–22

Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All personal regards must be laid aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none. Care is taken to prevent following the idolatrous customs of the heathen. Nothing belies God more, or tends more to corrupt the minds of men, than representing and worshipping, by an image, that God, who is an almighty and eternal Spirit, present every where. Alas! even in gospel days, and under a better dispensation, established upon better promises, there is a tendency to set up idols, under one form or another, in the human heart.

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