22 and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God hates.
22 And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
22 Don't set up phallic sex pillars - God, your God, hates them.
22 You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
22 And never set up sacred pillars for worship, for the Lord your God hates them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:22
Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:18-22
(Read Deuteronomy 16:18-22)
Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All personal regards must be laid aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none. Care is taken to prevent following the idolatrous customs of the heathen. Nothing belies God more, or tends more to corrupt the minds of men, than representing and worshipping, by an image, that God, who is an almighty and eternal Spirit, present every where. Alas! even in gospel days, and under a better dispensation, established upon better promises, there is a tendency to set up idols, under one form or another, in the human heart.