Deuteronomy 7:24

"And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their names to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God. And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it. and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing."

"Lest thou be snared therein ..." (Deuteronomy 7:25). The meaning is not that the silver and gold in itself would be a snare, but that in being a devoted thing as part of their false gods, it would contaminate all that came in contact with it. The tragic story of Achan in Joshua (Joshua 7) shows what a dreadful snare such as gold and silver really were. For a full explanation of what was meant by the "war ban" of all devoted things, see last paragraph of Deuteronomy 2, where three degrees of this ban are outlined.

"Thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven ..." (Deuteronomy 7:24). The final and ultimate fate of everything detested by God appears in a word like this, and the sorrowful aspect of this is that it applies, absolutely, to the entire race of Adam to the full extent of the sinful and rebellious part of the race. "And I will cut man (Adam) off the face of the ground" (Zephaniah 1:2). Throughout the Bible, the Great Terminator, like the sword of Damocles, is poised for the destruction of mankind in the final judgment, the sole survivors of which catastrophe will be the redeemed "in Christ." "To fall under God's ban is to forfeit all covenant privilege and come under the anathema of God."[38] "Even the name of false gods should be obliterated from memory."[39] Amazingly, this anathema against false gods is pronounced especially against the pagan priests. Zephaniah has this: "And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarim with the priests" (Zephaniah 1:4). Note: "[~Chemarim] is the usual Aramaic word, which comes from a root whose meaning is `to be black.'"[40] "The word means `black robed' and is applied to idolatrous priests (2 Kings 23:5; Hosea 10:5)."[41]