Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 4:16

16 Lest ye corrupt your selves , and make you a graven image , the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female:

(i. e.) Corrupt your minds with mean and carnal thoughts of God. Or, corrupt your ways or courses, by worshipping God in a corrupt manner, or by falling into Idolatry.

To wit, for worship, or for the representation of God, as it is explained ver. 19. for otherwise it was not simply unlawful to draw the picture or make a figure of a man or a beast.

Marginal references: Exod 24. 5.