It also would forbid the making of the image or icon.
Do you have pictures of Jesus in your church's Sunday school materials?
God became visible to us in the person of the incarnate Christ, of whom Scripture says directly that he is the eikon of the invisible God.
A few generations after the snake on the brass pole episode the Hebrews were making little statues of the remembered imagery. GOD had a certain King end that idolatry.