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.