Deutéronome 29:17

17 Vous avez vu leurs abominations et leurs idoles, le bois et la pierre, l'argent et l'or, qui sont chez elles.

Deutéronome 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.

Deutéronome 29:17 In-Context

15 Mais c'est avec ceux qui sont ici parmi nous, présents en ce jour devant l'Eternel, notre Dieu, et avec ceux qui ne sont point ici parmi nous en ce jour.

16 Vous savez de quelle manière nous avons habité dans le pays d'Egypte, et comment nous avons passé au milieu des nations que vous avez traversées.

17 Vous avez vu leurs abominations et leurs idoles, le bois et la pierre, l'argent et l'or, qui sont chez elles.

18 Qu'il n'y ait parmi vous ni homme, ni femme, ni famille, ni tribu, dont le coeur se détourne aujourd'hui de l'Eternel, notre Dieu, pour aller servir les dieux de ces nations-là. Qu'il n'y ait point parmi vous de racine qui produise du poison et de l'absinthe.

19 Que personne, après avoir entendu les paroles de cette alliance contractée avec serment, ne se glorifie dans son coeur et ne dise: J'aurai la paix, quand même je suivrai les penchants de mon coeur, et que j'ajouterai l'ivresse à la soif.