'Take care, lest by chance you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land onto which you come' means that there is to be no attachment to any sort of religion involving evil. 'Lest by chance it become a snare in your midst' means consequently being led astray in the Word itself. 'Therefore you shall overthrow their altars' means that the evil involved in that type of religion and in the worship springing from it is to be rejected. 'And break their pillars' means that falsities of evil are to be done away with. 'And tear down their groves' means that their teachings are to be totally rejected. 'Therefore you shall not bow down to any other god' means that the Lord alone is to be worshipped in faith and love. 'For Jehovah the Jealous One is His name, God the Jealous One is He' means that if any other is worshipped Divine Good and Divine Truth depart. 'Lest by chance you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land' means being linked thereby to any other sort of religion that has evil in it. 'And they go whoring after their gods' means from which falsities of evil arise. 'And sacrifice to their gods' means thus worship springing from the falsities. 'And they call you and you eat of their sacrifice' means being enticed by and accepting falsity arising from evil, and making it one's own. 'And you take their daughters for your sons' means affections for evil linked to truths. 'And their daughters go whoring after their gods, and they cause your sons to go whoring after their gods' means profanation thereby of goodness and truth. 'You shall not make gods of cast metal for yourself' means worship of self and not of the Lord.