11 "Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day : behold , I am going to drive out the Amorite before e you, and the Canaanite , the Hittite , the Perizzite , the Hivite and the Jebusite . 12 " Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going , or it will become a snare in your midst . 13 " But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim 14 -for you shall not worship any other god , for the Lord , whose name is Jealous , is a jealous God - 15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods , and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice , 16 and you might take some of his daughters for your sons , and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 34:11-16
Commentary on Exodus 34:10-17
(Read Exodus 34:10-17)
The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Proverbs 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only.