SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:17
Sacrificaron a los diablos, no a Dios; a los dioses que no conocieron; nuevos dioses , venidos de cerca, que no habían temido vuestros padres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:17
Verse 17. They sacrificed unto devils] The original word µyd shedim has been variously understood. The Syriac, Chaldee, Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan, and the Samaritan, retain the original word: the Vulgate, Septuagint, Arabic, Persic, Coptic, and Anglo-Saxon, have devils or demons. The Septuagint has equsan daimonioiv, they sacrificed to demons: the Vulgate copies the Septuagint: the Arabic has sheeateen, the plural of Sheetan, Satan, by which the rebellious angels appear to be intended, as the word comes from the root shatana, he was obstinate, proud, refractory, went far away. And it is likely that these fallen spirits, having utterly lost the empire at which they aimed, got themselves worshipped under various forms and names in different places. The Anglo-Saxon has , devils.
New gods that came newly up] wab brqm mikkarob bau, "which came up from their neighbours;" viz., the Moabites and Amorites, whose gods they received and worshipped on their way through the wilderness, and often afterwards.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-18 - Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostac from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," s some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputatio both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves and a god of their bellies, in pride and wantonness, and cannot bear to be told of it, thereby forsake God, and show they esteem him lightly There is but one way of a sinner's acceptance and sanctification however different modes of irreligion, or false religion, may show tha favourable regard for other ways, which is often miscalled candid. Ho mad are idolaters, who forsake the Rock of salvation, to run themselve upon the rock of perdition!
Original Hebrew
יזבחו 2076 לשׁדים 7700 לא 3808 אלה 433 אלהים 430 לא 3808 ידעום 3045 חדשׁים 2319 מקרב 7138 באו 935 לא 3808 שׂערום 8175 אבתיכם׃ 1
