Deuteronomy - 29:17



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

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You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.
And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)
and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them-
you saw their abominations and filth, that is, their idols of wood and of stone, of silver and of gold, which they worshipped,
Et vidistis abominationes earum, et idola earum, lignum, et lapidem, argentum et aurum, quae sunt apud illas.

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

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.

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