Deuteronomy 29:16-17 - The Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:16-17 -

These verses are not a parenthesis, as in the Authorized Version. Deuteronomy 29:18 is connected, not with Deuteronomy 29:15 , but with Deuteronomy 29:17 ; there should be a full stop at the end of Deuteronomy 29:15 . Their idols ; literally, their blocks or logs ( גִלוּלִים , from גָלַל , to roll something too heavy to be carried), a term of contempt used frequently in Scripture of idols.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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