Deuteronomio 29:17

17 Tú viste las prácticas detestables de esas naciones y sus ídolos
de madera, de piedra, de plata y de oro.

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 Lo hago tanto contigo, que hoy estás en la presencia del Señor
tu Dios, como también con las generaciones futuras, que no están aquí hoy.

16 »Tú recuerdas cómo vivíamos en la tierra de Egipto y cómo anduvimos por el territorio de naciones enemigas cuando salimos de allí.

17 Tú viste las prácticas detestables de esas naciones y sus ídolos
de madera, de piedra, de plata y de oro.

18 Hago este pacto contigo, para que nadie —hombre o mujer, clan o tribu— se aparte del Señor
nuestro Dios para rendir culto a esos dioses de otras naciones, y para que ninguna raíz produzca frutos amargos y venenosos en medio de ti.

19 »Los que oyen las advertencias de esta maldición no deberían confiarse demasiado y pensar: “Estoy a salvo, a pesar de que sigo los deseos de mi corazón terco”. ¡Eso los llevaría a la ruina total!