Ye shall drive out; not by banishing, but by destroying them, as it is explained, Deu_7:1,2, and elsewhere. Their pictures seem to have been stones curiously engraven, and set up for worship. See Deu_16:22.
Molten images. See Exo_23:24,32 Deu 7:5.
High places, i.e. by a metonymy, the chapels, altars, groves, or other means of worship there set up, for the hills themselves could not be destroyed by them. See Poole "Deu_12:2".