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Deuteronomy 29:17

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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:)
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

10All of you are standing today before the LORD your God-you leaders of tribes, elders, officials, and all the men of Israel, 11you children, wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water- 12so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath, 13and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 14I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, 15but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today. 16For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and passed through the nations as you traveled. 17You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, 19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, 'I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.' This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as 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
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
Genesis 24:16
Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Genesis 29:1
Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Genesis 29:2
He looked and saw a well in the field, and there by it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:6
"Is he well?" Jacob inquired. "Yes," they answered, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep."
Genesis 29:12
He told Rachel that he was Rebekah's son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
Genesis 29:19
Laban replied, "Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me."
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:22
So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared 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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