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Turn ye not aside, to wit, after idols; as they had often done before; and, notwithstanding this warning, did afterwards.
Should ye go, or, should ye turn aside; which words are easily to be understood out of the foregoing branch, such ellipses being most frequent in Scripture, as Deu_1:4 1Ki_14:14 2Ki_9:27.
Vain things; so idols are called, Deu_32:21 Jer_2:5, and so they are, being mere nothings, 1Co_8:4, having no divinity nor power in them; no influence upon us, nor use or benefit to us.
Which cannot profit nor deliver, i.e. which will not only be unprofitable, but highly pernicious to you; the contrary affirmative being understood under the negative, as Exo_20:7 Num_21:23 Deu_2:30.