Deuteronômio 29:17

17 Vocês viram nelas as suas imagens e os seus ídolos detestáveis, feitos de madeira, de pedra, de prata e de ouro.

Deuteronômio 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.

Deuteronômio 29:17 In-Context

15 que estão aqui conosco na presença do SENHOR, o nosso Deus, mas também com aqueles que não estão aqui hoje.

16 “Vocês mesmos sabem como vivemos no Egito e como passamos por várias nações até chegarmos aqui.

17 Vocês viram nelas as suas imagens e os seus ídolos detestáveis, feitos de madeira, de pedra, de prata e de ouro.

18 Cuidem que não haja entre vocês nenhum homem ou mulher, clã ou tribo cujo coração se afaste do SENHOR, o nosso Deus, para adorar os deuses daquelas nações e para que não haja no meio de vocês nenhuma raiz que produza esse veneno amargo.

19 “Se alguém, cujo coração se afastou do SENHOR para adorar outros deuses, ouvir as palavras deste juramento, invocar uma bênção sobre si mesmo e pensar: ‘Estarei em segurança, muito embora persista em seguir o meu próprio caminho’, trará desgraça tanto à terra irrigada quanto à terra seca.