Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 13:2

2 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day , saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land , and they shall no more be remembred : and also I will cause the prophets , and the unclean spirit i to pass out of the land .

Vid. ver. 1. let. a.

Utterly destroy Idols and Idolatry, Satan fell from Heaven like Lightning, as Christ tells us when the Gospel was preacht by those he sent, and 'tis known the Birth of Christ silenced the Devil, that he could no more give answer to those that enquired at his Oracles, the light of the Gospel is such, that none of the Idols can bear it. The Devil put it into the heads of the Romans to keep Christ from being received by publick allowance for a God, because he would turn out all the rest of them.

With veneration, sacrifices, gifts, erecting of Temples, depending on, or consulting with them; they shall be remembred and abhorred, whereas before they were remembred and ador'd.

Either those that being Priests to Idols, did consult with them, and pretend to foretel future events, or more likely the false Prophets among the Iews, who are Prophets as Idols are Gods. i. e. The Devil which sets the false Prophets on work, Christ cast many out of persons possessed, and by his Doctrine still doth cast out Satan.

Marginal references: Exod. 23.13. Psal. 16.4. Ezek. 30.1[illegible: 1 letter]. Hos. 2.17.; Mat. 12.43. Mar. 1.29.