12:1
Now we get clear instructions that there is to be one place of worship, but the chapter starts with yet another reminder that they must be careful to follow the laws and decrees of the Lord. This was a command for all time, “as long as you live in the land”. It was not just a command to get them started, i.e. not just for entering and possessing the land.
12:2
It was vital that they completely destroyed all vestiges of idol worship, the idols themselves and the places of worship. As we know from the rest of the Old Testament, this they failed to do, with even good kings failing to remove the “high places”. There was a peculiar reluctance to completely clear the place of all aspects of idol worship. We need to watch ourselves, for we can expect the same reluctance to completely clear our lives of sin and idols to be there.
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