Psalmen 106:36

36 En zij dienden hun afgoden, en zij werden hun tot een strik.

Psalmen 106:36 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 106:36

And they served their idols
Of gold and silver, wood and stone; the works of men's hands, senseless creatures; which are nothing in the world, and bring grief and sorrow to the worshippers of them, from whence they have their name here given them; see ( Psalms 16:4 ) . They served "their" idols, the idols of the Canaanites, who were dispossessed of their land for their idolatries and other sins; and these Israelites were put in their place. They served those which they were ordered to destroy; they who knew the true God, whose servants they were, or ought to have been, and professed to be, and were so called; and yet served the idols of the nations driven out before them. Which were a snare unto them; either the Canaanites were, who were left in the land, with whom they mixed, and whose works they learned; these ensnared them, and drew them into idolatry, ( Joshua 23:13 ) , or the idols they worshipped, which were the cause of many evils and calamities, ( Judges 2:3 ) , or the act of serving and worshipping them, ( Exodus 23:33 ) ( Deuteronomy 7:16 ) . They were by these means like a bird or beast in a snare, and brought into trouble and distress, out of which they could not extricate themselves.

Psalmen 106:36 In-Context

34 Zij hebben die volken niet verdelgd, die de HEERE hun gezegd had;

35 Maar zij vermengden zich met de heidenen, en leerden derzelver werken.

36 En zij dienden hun afgoden, en zij werden hun tot een strik.

37 Daarenboven hebben zij hun zonen en hun dochteren den duivelen geofferd.

38 En zij hebben onschuldig bloed vergoten, het bloed hunner zonen en hunner dochteren, die zij den afgoden van Kanaan hebben opgeofferd; zodat het land door deze bloedschulden is ontheiligd geworden.