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Deuteronomy 29:17

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Stones;   The Topic Concordance - Heart;   Idolatry;   Service;   Turning;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Idol, idolatry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Life;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abomination, Abomination of Desolation;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gomorrha;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abomination;   Abomination of Desolation;   Crafts;   Gods;   Gold;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abomination;   Anger;   Targum;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You saw their abhorrent images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.
Hebrew Names Version
and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
King James Version
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Lexham English Bible
And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them,
English Standard Version
And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
New Century Version
You saw their hateful idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
New English Translation
You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
Amplified Bible
and you have seen their detestable acts and their [repulsive] idols of wood and stone, [lifeless images] of silver and gold, which they had with them),
New American Standard Bible
moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);
Geneva Bible (1587)
And ye haue seene their abominations and their idoles (wood, and stone, siluer and golde) which were among them,
Legacy Standard Bible
moreover, you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them—
Complete Jewish Bible
So let there not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe whose heart turns away today from Adonai our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Let there not be among you a root bearing such bitter poison and wormwood.
Darby Translation
and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Easy-to-Read Version
You saw their hated things—the idols they had made from wood, stone, silver, and gold.
George Lamsa Translation
And you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood and stone, overlaid with silver and gold).
Good News Translation
You saw their disgusting idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
Literal Translation
And you have seen their detestable things, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sawe their abhominacions and their Idols, wodd and stone, syluer and golde, which were with them:
American Standard Version
and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Bible in Basic English
And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye haue seene their abhominations, and their idols, wood and stone, siluer and golde, which were among them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
King James Version (1611)
And ye haue seene their abominations, and their idoles, wood, and stone, siluer, and gold, which were among them.)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.
English Revised Version
and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Berean Standard Bible
You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and siyen abhomynaciouns and filthis, that is, idols `of hem, tre and stoon, siluer and gold, whiche thei worschipiden.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye see their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [are] with them,
Update Bible Version
and you have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)
World English Bible
and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);
New King James Version
and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them--wood and stone and silver and gold);
New Living Translation
You have seen their detestable practices and their idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
New Life Bible
You have seen their sinful things and their gods of wood, stone, silver and gold, which they had with them.
New Revised Standard
You have seen their detestable things, the filthy idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, that were among them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and ye saw their disgusting images, and their manufactured gods, - the wood and the stone, the silver and the gold that are with them.)
Douay-Rheims Bible
You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
Revised Standard Version
and you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them);

Contextual Overview

10You are all standing here today in the Presence of God , your God—the heads of your tribes, your leaders, your officials, all Israel: your babies, your wives, the resident foreigners in your camps who fetch your firewood and water—ready to cross over into the solemnly sworn Covenant that God , your God, is making with you today, the Covenant that this day confirms that you are his people and he is God , your God, just as he promised you and your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 14I'm not making this Covenant and its oath with you alone. I am making it with you who are standing here today in the Presence of God , our God, yes, but also with those who are not here today. You know the conditions in which we lived in Egypt and how we crisscrossed through nations in our travels. You got an eyeful of their obscenities, their wood and stone, silver and gold junk-gods. Don't let down your guard lest even now, today, someone—man or woman, clan or tribe—gets sidetracked from God , our God, and gets involved with the no-gods of the nations; lest some poisonous weed sprout and spread among you, a person who hears the words of the Covenant-oath but exempts himself, thinking, "I'll live just the way I please, thank you," and ends up ruining life for everybody. God won't let him off the hook. God 's anger and jealousy will erupt like a volcano against that person. The curses written in this book will bury him. God will delete his name from the records. God will separate him out from all the tribes of Israel for special punishment, according to all the curses of the Covenant written in this Book of Revelation. 22The next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a far country, will be appalled when they see the widespread devastation, how God made the whole land sick. They'll see a fire-blackened wasteland of brimstone and salt flats, nothing planted, nothing growing, not so much as a blade of grass anywhere—like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which God overthrew in fiery rage. 24 All the nations will ask, "Why did God do this to this country? What on earth could have made him this angry?" 25Your children will answer, "Because they abandoned the Covenant of the God of their ancestors that he made with them after he got them out of Egypt; they went off and worshiped other gods, submitted to gods they'd never heard of before, gods they had no business dealing with. So God 's anger erupted against that land and all the curses written in this book came down on it. God , furiously angry, pulled them, roots and all, out of their land and dumped them in another country, as you can see." 29 God , our God, will take care of the hidden things but the revealed things are our business. It's up to us and our children to attend to all the terms in this Revelation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

idols: Heb. dungy gods, Deuteronomy 29:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:15 - an abomination Ezekiel 16:26 - with the Ezekiel 20:32 - to serve Revelation 17:4 - abominations

Cross-References

Genesis 29:1
Jacob set out again on his way to the people of the east. He noticed a well out in an open field with three flocks of sheep bedded down around it. This was the common well from which the flocks were watered. The stone over the mouth of the well was huge. When all the flocks were gathered, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well and water the sheep; then they would return the stone, covering the well.
Genesis 29:6
"Are things well with him?" Jacob continued. "Very well," they said. "And here is his daughter Rachel coming with the flock."
Genesis 29:19
"It is far better," said Laban, "that I give her to you than marry her to some outsider. Yes. Stay here with me."
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel. But it only seemed like a few days, he loved her so much.
Genesis 30:22
And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation." She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."
Genesis 35:24
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram. Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.
Jeremiah 31:15
Again, God 's Message: "Listen to this! Laments coming out of Ramah, wild and bitter weeping. It's Rachel weeping for her children, Rachel refusing all solace. Her children are gone, gone—long gone into exile." But God says, "Stop your incessant weeping, hold back your tears. Collect wages from your grief work." God 's Decree. "They'll be coming back home! There's hope for your children." God 's Decree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye have seen their abominations and their idols,.... Or, "their abominations, even their idols"; for the same are meant by both: it is common in Scripture to call the idols of the Gentiles abominations, without any other explanation of them; see 1 Kings 11:5; because they are abominable to God, and ought to be so to men: the word for idols has the signification of dung, and may be rendered dunghill gods, either referring to such that were bred and lived in dung, as the beetle, worshipped by the Egyptians, as Bishop Patrick observes; or which were as much to be loathed and abhorred as the dung of any creature:

wood and stone, silver and gold; these are the materials of which the idols they had seen in the several countries they had been in, or passed through, were made of; some of wood, others of stone cut out of these, and carved; others more rich and costly were made of massive gold and silver, and were molten ones; or the images of wood were glided with gold and silver;

which [were] among them; now these being seen by them in as they passed along, they might run in their minds, or be called to remembrance by them, and so they be in danger of being drawn aside to make the like, and worship them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Idols - See the margin, “dungy gods;” i. e. clods or stocks which can be rolled about (compare Leviticus 26:30).


 
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