I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. The destruction of the idolatrous high places and altars communicates the cosmic reversal: the idols that the community chose over God will be destroyed along with the community that chose them. The dead bodies piled on the idols communicate the ironic justice of the curse: the idols that were worshipped cannot save their worshippers from the curse that their worship produced. I will abhor you — the reversal of I will not abhor you (verse 11) — is the covenant's most devastating statement.

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