ear-rings] (Hosea 2:13.) Which either had been abused to the Idols of Shechem, or might be easily turned to occasion of superstition, as Tablets or Agnus Dees among the Papists; their readinesse to part with the memorials of idolatry, and superstition, though of some price, condemnes the superstitious disobedience of some, who though upon the command of Authority, will not part with superstitious pictures, albeit they be neither in price nor propriety to be compared with these ear-rings, or other pretious appurtenances of Idolatry, which are to be rejected with abhorring detestation, as Esai. 30. 22. hid them] It is like that he first melted them, or otherwise defaced them, lest they should be found, and again abused to idolatry, as Moses did, Exodus 32:20. and Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:4. under an oake] Idolaters had a superstitious respect unto trees, thence it was that groves were to be destroyed as monuments of Idolatry; Exodus 34:13. Deuteronomy 7:5. &Deuteronomy 12:3. and among trees the oake was especially accompted of, as appeares, Esa. 1. 29. The Idols there buryed were the more like to lie hid, because they were superstitiously preserved from cutting downe, or digging up.