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Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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World English Bible

Deuteronomy 29:17

and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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:)
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

10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water; 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; 13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day 16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed; 17 and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; 19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

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 12:11
It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
Genesis 29:2
He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
Genesis 29:6
He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
Genesis 29:12
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
Genesis 29:18
Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
Genesis 29:19
Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
Genesis 29:20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Genesis 29:22
Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

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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