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image. This could not have been an image of a human being. The height and breadth are out of all proportion for this; the former being one to ten instead of one to six. A figure drawn on this scale, will at once be seen to be impossible. Having determined that it is a human figure, tradition then assumes it to have been a proportional figure "on a pedestal", or simply "a bust on a pillar". But there is nothing in the text to suggest this. It would exactly suit an Asherah (App-42). The Hebrew tzelem denotes something shaped by cutting or carving. Eze_16:17, and Dan_23:14, practically make this certain. See the verb in Eze_7:20; and compare what is said in Num_33:52.
height . . . breadth. See above note.
threescore . . . six. The numbers of man (App-10). Note the six instruments (compare Dan_5:7, Dan_5:10, Dan_5:15). See note on 1Sa_17:4.