Verse Lens · Context pointer
Deuteronomy 29:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
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Role in This Section
Deuteronomy 29:17 points to witnessed idols made from wood, stone, silver, and gold.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 29:16–29
Read Deuteronomy 29:17 with 29:16–29. It points to witnessed idols made from wood, stone, silver, and gold. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Memory of foreign idols warns against a self-blessing heart that imagines peace while persisting; individual and land judgment escalate, future generations ask why, and secret things are left to God while revealed things call for obedience.
Continue in Context
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Read Deuteronomy 29:16–29 — Hidden Idolatry, Bitter Root, and the Secret ThingsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 29:16–29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 29:16–29
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