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JPS Old Testament

Deuteronomy 29:17

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;

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.
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

10 your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; 11 that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God--and into His oath--which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day; 12 that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 13 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 14 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day-- 15 for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 16 and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them-- 17 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; 18 and it come to pass, when he heareth 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--that the watered be swept away with the dry'; 19 the LORD will not be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven;

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
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife: 'Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon.
Genesis 24:16
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her; and she went down to the fountain, and 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
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it.--For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.
Genesis 29:6
And he said unto them: 'Is it well with him?' And they said: 'It is well; and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.'
Genesis 29:12
And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father.
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: 'I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.'
Genesis 29:19
And Laban said: 'It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man; abide with me.'
Genesis 29:20
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Genesis 29:22
And 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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