Deuteronomio 29:17

17 además, habéis visto sus abominaciones y los ídolos de madera y de piedra, de plata y de oro, que tenían con ellos);

Deuteronomio 29:17 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:17

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 1 Kings 11:7 ) ; 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.

Deuteronomio 29:17 In-Context

15 sino también con los que están hoy aquí con nosotros en la presencia del SEÑOR nuestro Dios, y con los que no están hoy aquí con nosotros

16 (pues vosotros sabéis cómo habitamos en la tierra de Egipto y cómo pasamos en medio de las naciones por las cuales habéis pasado,

17 además, habéis visto sus abominaciones y los ídolos de madera y de piedra, de plata y de oro, que tenían con ellos);

18 no sea que haya entre vosotros hombre o mujer, familia o tribu, cuyo corazón se aleje hoy del SEÑOR nuestro Dios para ir y servir a los dioses de aquellas naciones; no sea que haya entre vosotros una raíz que produzca fruto venenoso y ajenjo.

19 Y sucederá que cuando él oiga las palabras de esta maldición, se envanecerá, diciendo: "Tendré paz aunque ande en la terquedad de mi corazón, a fin de destruir la tierra regada junto con la seca."