36They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
36 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
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36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
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36 And they served their idols, which became a snare unto them;
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
2 Kings 16:3(v37)But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the…
2 Kings 17:17(v37)They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which…
Numbers 35:33(v38)“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that…
Deuteronomy 7:16(v36)You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods;…
Deuteronomy 32:17(v37)They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
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Jeremiah 7:31(v37)They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the…
Deuteronomy 21:9(v38)So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Judges 2:3(v36)Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’…
2 Kings 21:16(v38)Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which…
Isaiah 26:21(v38)For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her…
Exodus 23:33(v36)They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Deuteronomy 12:30-31(v37)be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods,…
2 Kings 24:4(v38)and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
Isaiah 1:15(v38)When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of…
Isaiah 24:5(v38)The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the…
Jeremiah 2:34(v38)Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these…
Ezekiel 7:23(v38)“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 22:3(v38)You shall say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A city that sheds blood within herself, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself…
Ezekiel 23:37(v37)For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their…
Leviticus 17:7(v37)They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to…
Deuteronomy 18:10(v37)There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who tells…
Judges 2:12-15(v36)They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the…
2 Kings 21:6(v37)He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with…
Psalms 78:58(v36)For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
Isaiah 57:5(v37)you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 32:35(v37)They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through…
Ezekiel 16:20-21(v37)“ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured.…
Ezekiel 20:26(v37)I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate,…
1 Corinthians 10:20(v37)But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have…
Exodus 34:15-16(v36)“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and…
Joshua 23:13(v36)know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap…
Judges 2:17(v36)Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly…
Judges 2:19(v36)But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow…
Judges 3:5-7(v36)The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. They took…
Judges 10:6(v36)The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of…
2 Kings 17:8-11(v36)and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they…
2 Kings 17:16-17(v36)They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and…
2 Chronicles 11:15(v37)He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
2 Chronicles 33:2-9(v36)He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. For…
Ezekiel 16:15-63(v36)“ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who…
Ezekiel 20:28-32(v36)For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they…
Ezekiel 23:47(v37)The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up…
Romans 9:20(v37)But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
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John Calvin1540 · Public DomainOn vv37–3837. And they sacrificed The prophet here mentions one…
37. And they sacrificed The prophet here mentions one species of superstition which demonstrates the awful blindness of the people; their not hesitating to sacrifice their sons and daughters to devils. In applying such an abominable designation to the sin of the people, he means to exhibit it in more hateful colors. From this we learn that inconsiderate zeal is a flimsy pretext in favor of any act of devotion. For by how much the Jews were under the influence of burning zeal, by so much does the prophet convict them with being guilty of greater wickedness; because their madness carried them away to such a pitch of enthusiasm, that they did not spare even their own offspring. Were good intentions meritorious, as idolaters suppose, then indeed the laying aside of all natural affection in sacrificing their own children was a deed deserving of the highest praise. But when men act under the impulse of their own capricious humor, the more they occupy themselves with acts of external worship, the more do they increase their guilt. For what difference was there between Abraham and those persons of whom the prophet makes mention, but that the former, under the influence of faith, was ready to offer up his son, while the latter, carried away by the impulse of intemperate zeal, cast off all natural affection, and imbrued their hands in the blood of their own offspring.
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn v37He showeth how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which…
He showeth how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, whereas God’s word cannot obtain most small things.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv36–38Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were…
Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Ver. 36. And they served their idols] The devil is ειδωλοχαρης, saith Synesius, a lover of idolatry, and he speaks through idolaters as through his trunks, persuading people to like practice, as did Julian, whom an ancient, therefore, called Idolian.
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Which were a snare unto them] Or, a ruin, as some render it; they were first drawn in, and then undone by them.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv36–38Which idols were an occasion of their falling both…
Which idols were an occasion of their falling both into further and greater sins, as it follows, Psa 106:37,38; and into utter ruin, as this phrase also notes, Exo 23:33; Jdg 2:12, &c.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv36–38And they served their idols,.... Of gold and silver,…
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 Psa 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, Jos 23:13, or the idols they worshipped, which were the cause of many evils and calamities, Jdg 2:3, or the act of serving and worshipping them, Exo 23:33. 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.
. 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.
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Psalms 106:37
psa 106:37
psa 106:37
psa 106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Targum renders it by which signifies spirits noxious and hurtful; but R. Elias Levita, in his Tishbi, p. 233, says it is a mistake to derive it from the root which signifies to waste and destroy; for then he says the "daleth" should have a "dagesh"; but does not tell us from whence it is derived. De Dieu, on Mat 9:32, derives it from the Arabic word "to rule", for these demons were heroes, princes who ruled over others, and so were reckoned among the gods. As Satan, the head of them, was a murderer from the beginning, the cause of the ruin of our first parents, and of all their posterity; and may be truly called, as the king of the locusts is, "Apollyon" or "Abaddon", Joh 8:44 these the Israelites sacrificed unto, as the Gentiles did, Lev 17:7 and not lambs and rams, sheep, goats, and bullocks, but their sons and daughters; which they not only caused to pass through the fire to Moloch, which was a lustration of them by the flame, or causing them to pass between two fires; but they sacrificed them to be devoured, and actually burned them; see Jer 7:31. From whence we may see of what a hardening nature sin is, and how by degrees persons may be brought to commit things the most shocking to nature, and which they some time before shuddered at. First, these Israelites mix themselves with the Heathens they spared, whom they should have destroyed; then they learn, by being among them, to do as they did, to walk in the vanity of their minds like them; and then they are enticed to serve their idols, and at last to sacrifice their sons and daughters to devils; which was no other than murder, and that of the most heinous nature: as follows.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn v37Devils - They did not worship God as they…
Devils - They did not worship God as they pretended, but devils in their idols; for those spirits, which were supposed by the Heathen idolaters to inhabit in their images, were not good spirits, but evil spirits, or devils.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv36–37Verse 36. They served their idols] עצביהם atsabbeyhem, their…
Verse 36. They served their idols] עצביהם atsabbeyhem, their labours or griefs-idols, so called because of the pains taken in forming them, the labor in worshipping them, and the grief occasioned by the Divine judgments against the people for their idolatry.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv36–38And they served their idols - Jdg 2:12-13, Jdg…
And they served their idols - Jdg 2:12-13, Jdg 2:17, Jdg 2:19; Jdg 3:6-7.
Which were a snare unto them - Like the snares or toils by which birds and wild beasts are caught. That is, they were taken unawares; they were in danger when they did not perceive it; they fell when they thought themselves safe. The bird and the wild beast approach the snare, unconscious of danger; so the friend of God approaches the temptations which are spread out before him by the enemy of souls - and, ere he is aware, he is a captive, and has fallen. Nothing could better describe the way in which the people of God are led into sin than the arts by which birds are caught by the fowler, and wild beasts by the hunter.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv36–3736. They served their idols—This was but a natural…
36. They served their idols—This was but a natural result of such friendships as those against which they had been forewarned.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv36–3836. which were &c.] And they became a snare…
36. which were &c.] And they became a snare unto them, as they had been forewarned, Exo_23:33, &c. P.B.V. which turned to their own decay = which proved their ruin.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv37–38(37) Devils.—Literally, lords, meaning, of course, the false deities.…
(37) Devils.—Literally, lords, meaning, of course, the false deities. The word is, no doubt, chosen to represent the meaning of the heathen gods’ names Ba’alîm, Adonîm. For the same Hebrew word, see Deu_32:17 (Jdg_2:11, Baalim).
The Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew word became in Spain the Cid, and exists still in the Moorish sidi, i.e., “my lord.”
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv36–38And they served their idols: which were a snare…
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them; or, which became a snare unto them. The idols worshipped were especially Baal and Ashtoreth the nature-god and nature-goddess, sometimes identified with the sun and moon. These alone are mentioned in the time of the Judges. Afterwards, however, Chemosh, Molech, Remphan, the gods of Syria, and perhaps Ammon of Egypt, were added to the catalogue. (1Ki_11:7 2Ki_21:19 2Ch_28:23 Act_7:43)
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Charles H. Spurgeon1885 · Public DomainOn vv36–37Ver. 36. And they served their idols: which were…
Ver. 36. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. They were fascinated by the charms of idolatry, though it brings misery upon its votaries. A man cannot serve sin without being ensnared by it. It is like birdlime, and to touch it is to be taken by it. Samson laid his head in the Philistine woman's lap, but ere long he woke up shorn of his strength. Dalliance with sin is fatal to spiritual liberty.
Psalms 106:37*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v37They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons…
They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters
The phrase "shedding blood" is a descriptive euphemism used for "killing." AT: "They shed innocent blood when they killed their sons and daughters" (See: Euphemism)
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They were defiled by their deeds
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Their deeds defiled them" (See: Active or Passive)
in their actions they were like prostitutes
Here David compares their unfaithfulness to Yahweh to the unfaithfulness of a prostitute. AT: "they were as unfaithful to Yahweh as prostitutes" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv37–38 37. And they sacrificed The prophet here mentions one…
37. And they sacrificed The prophet here mentions one species of superstition which demonstrates the awful blindness of the people; their not hesitating to sacrifice their sons and daughters to devils. In applying such an abominable designation to the sin of the people, he means to exhibit it in more hateful colors. From this we learn that inconsiderate zeal is a flimsy pretext in favor of any act of devotion. For by how much the Jews were under the influence of burning zeal, by so much does the prophet convict them with being guilty of greater wickedness; because their madness carried them away to such a pitch of enthusiasm, that they did not spare even their own offspring. Were good intentions meritorious, as idolaters suppose, then indeed the laying aside of all natural affection in sacrificing their own children was a deed deserving of the highest praise. But when men act under the impulse of their own capricious humor, the more they occupy themselves with acts of external worship, the more do they increase their guilt. For what difference was there between Abraham and those persons of whom the prophet makes mention, but that the former, under the influence of faith, was ready to offer up his son, while the latter, carried away by the impulse of intemperate zeal, cast off all natural affection, and imbrued their hands in the blood of their own offspring.
John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v37 He showeth how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which…
He showeth how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, whereas God’s word cannot obtain most small things.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv36–38 Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were…
Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Ver. 36. And they served their idols] The devil is ειδωλοχαρης, saith Synesius, a lover of idolatry, and he speaks through idolaters as through his trunks, persuading people to like practice, as did Julian, whom an ancient, therefore, called Idolian.
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Which were a snare unto them] Or, a ruin, as some render it; they were first drawn in, and then undone by them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv36–38 Which idols were an occasion of their falling both…
Which idols were an occasion of their falling both into further and greater sins, as it follows, Psa 106:37,38; and into utter ruin, as this phrase also notes, Exo 23:33; Jdg 2:12, &c.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv36–38 And they served their idols,.... Of gold and silver,…
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 Psa 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, Jos 23:13, or the idols they worshipped, which were the cause of many evils and calamities, Jdg 2:3, or the act of serving and worshipping them, Exo 23:33. 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.
. 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.
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Psalms 106:37
psa 106:37
psa 106:37
psa 106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Targum renders it by which signifies spirits noxious and hurtful; but R. Elias Levita, in his Tishbi, p. 233, says it is a mistake to derive it from the root which signifies to waste and destroy; for then he says the "daleth" should have a "dagesh"; but does not tell us from whence it is derived. De Dieu, on Mat 9:32, derives it from the Arabic word "to rule", for these demons were heroes, princes who ruled over others, and so were reckoned among the gods. As Satan, the head of them, was a murderer from the beginning, the cause of the ruin of our first parents, and of all their posterity; and may be truly called, as the king of the locusts is, "Apollyon" or "Abaddon", Joh 8:44 these the Israelites sacrificed unto, as the Gentiles did, Lev 17:7 and not lambs and rams, sheep, goats, and bullocks, but their sons and daughters; which they not only caused to pass through the fire to Moloch, which was a lustration of them by the flame, or causing them to pass between two fires; but they sacrificed them to be devoured, and actually burned them; see Jer 7:31. From whence we may see of what a hardening nature sin is, and how by degrees persons may be brought to commit things the most shocking to nature, and which they some time before shuddered at. First, these Israelites mix themselves with the Heathens they spared, whom they should have destroyed; then they learn, by being among them, to do as they did, to walk in the vanity of their minds like them; and then they are enticed to serve their idols, and at last to sacrifice their sons and daughters to devils; which was no other than murder, and that of the most heinous nature: as follows.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v37 Devils - They did not worship God as they…
Devils - They did not worship God as they pretended, but devils in their idols; for those spirits, which were supposed by the Heathen idolaters to inhabit in their images, were not good spirits, but evil spirits, or devils.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv36–37 Verse 36. They served their idols] עצביהם atsabbeyhem, their…
Verse 36. They served their idols] עצביהם atsabbeyhem, their labours or griefs-idols, so called because of the pains taken in forming them, the labor in worshipping them, and the grief occasioned by the Divine judgments against the people for their idolatry.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv36–38 And they served their idols - Jdg 2:12-13, Jdg…
And they served their idols - Jdg 2:12-13, Jdg 2:17, Jdg 2:19; Jdg 3:6-7.
Which were a snare unto them - Like the snares or toils by which birds and wild beasts are caught. That is, they were taken unawares; they were in danger when they did not perceive it; they fell when they thought themselves safe. The bird and the wild beast approach the snare, unconscious of danger; so the friend of God approaches the temptations which are spread out before him by the enemy of souls - and, ere he is aware, he is a captive, and has fallen. Nothing could better describe the way in which the people of God are led into sin than the arts by which birds are caught by the fowler, and wild beasts by the hunter.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv36–37 36. They served their idols—This was but a natural…
36. They served their idols—This was but a natural result of such friendships as those against which they had been forewarned.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv36–38 36. which were &c.] And they became a snare…
36. which were &c.] And they became a snare unto them, as they had been forewarned, Exo_23:33, &c. P.B.V. which turned to their own decay = which proved their ruin.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv37–38 (37) Devils.—Literally, lords, meaning, of course, the false deities.…
(37) Devils.—Literally, lords, meaning, of course, the false deities. The word is, no doubt, chosen to represent the meaning of the heathen gods’ names Ba’alîm, Adonîm. For the same Hebrew word, see Deu_32:17 (Jdg_2:11, Baalim).
The Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew word became in Spain the Cid, and exists still in the Moorish sidi, i.e., “my lord.”
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv36–38 And they served their idols: which were a snare…
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them; or, which became a snare unto them. The idols worshipped were especially Baal and Ashtoreth the nature-god and nature-goddess, sometimes identified with the sun and moon. These alone are mentioned in the time of the Judges. Afterwards, however, Chemosh, Molech, Remphan, the gods of Syria, and perhaps Ammon of Egypt, were added to the catalogue. (1Ki_11:7 2Ki_21:19 2Ch_28:23 Act_7:43)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain On vv36–37 Ver. 36. And they served their idols: which were…
Ver. 36. And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. They were fascinated by the charms of idolatry, though it brings misery upon its votaries. A man cannot serve sin without being ensnared by it. It is like birdlime, and to touch it is to be taken by it. Samson laid his head in the Philistine woman's lap, but ere long he woke up shorn of his strength. Dalliance with sin is fatal to spiritual liberty.
Psalms 106:37*
Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v37 They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons…
They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters
The phrase "shedding blood" is a descriptive euphemism used for "killing." AT: "They shed innocent blood when they killed their sons and daughters" (See: Euphemism)
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They were defiled by their deeds
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Their deeds defiled them" (See: Active or Passive)
in their actions they were like prostitutes
Here David compares their unfaithfulness to Yahweh to the unfaithfulness of a prostitute. AT: "they were as unfaithful to Yahweh as prostitutes" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
translationWords
sacrifice
demon
innocent
blood
Canaan
desecrate
defile
prostitute
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v37 106:37 Pagan gods were demons (see Deut 32:17).
106:37 Pagan gods were demons (see Deut 32:17).
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