SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:15
Maldito el varón que hiciere escultura o imagen de fundición, abominación al SEÑOR, obra de mano de artífice, y la pusiere en oculto. Y todo el pueblo responderá y dirá: Amén.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 27:15
Verse 15. Cursed be the man, &c.] Other laws, previously made, had prohibited all these things; and penal sanctions were necessarily understood; but here God more openly declares that he who breaks them is cursed-falls under the wrath and indignation of his Maker and Judge. See the note on "Exod. xx. 4".
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image , etc.] The blessings and the form of them are not recorded, because they were not to be had from the law, and through obedience to it; and therefore there is a profound silence about them, to put men upon seeking for them elsewhere, and which are only to be had in Christ, especially spiritual ones; but we may suppose they were delivered in the same form, and respecting the same things as the curses, only just the reverse of them; as, “blessed is the man that maketh not any graven image”, etc. The order of both is given in the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; (see Gill on “ Deuteronomy 11:29”). This curse respects the breach of the first table of the law, and everything included in it relating to the nature and being of God, the worship of him, and the honour of his name; to do anything contrary to which, particularly to make an image, whether graven or molten, to worship, is an abomination to the Lord ; and therefore subjects a man to the curse of his law, it being the work of the hands of the craftsman ; and therefore it must be a most stupid thing to ascribe deity to it, and worship it as such: and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place] ; though it is not set in a place of public worship, or the house, so as to be seen by everyone; but in some retired place, in a secret chamber, and there worshipped, or kept to look at with pleasure; which would be a temptation, and lead on to idolatry, and therefore is forbidden, and to be guarded against: now one that committed idolatry, or anything like it, in the most secret manner, was liable to this curse; for the omniscient God, the legislator, knows what is done in the most private manner, and will resent and revenge every affront and injury to his honour and glory. And Aben Ezra observes, that all that follow respect things done in a secret way, and which were not cognizable by the civil magistrate, and therefore to deter persons from them these curses were pronounced: and all the people shall answer and say Amen ; even those on the one mountain as on the other, thereby approving of, and assenting to, the justice of the sentence pronounced.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-26 - The six tribes appointed for blessing, were all children of the fre women, for to such the promise belongs, Ga 4:31. Levi is here among the rest. Ministers should apply to themselves the blessing and curse the preach to others, and by faith set their own Amen to it. And they mus not only allure people to their duty with the promises of a blessing but awe them with the threatenings of a curse, by declaring that curse would be upon those who do such things. To each of the curses the people were to say, Amen. It professed their faith, that these, and the like curses, were real declarations of the wrath of God against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, not one jot of which shall fal to the ground. It was acknowledging the equity of these curses. Thos who do such things deserve to fall, and lie under the curse. Lest thos who were guilty of other sins, not here mentioned, should thin themselves safe from the curse, the last reaches all. Not only thos who do the evil which the law forbids, but those also who omit the goo which the law requires. Without the atoning blood of Christ, sinner can neither have communion with a holy God, nor do any thing acceptabl to him; his righteous law condemns every one who, at any time, or i any thing, transgresses it. Under its awful curse we remain a transgressors, until the redemption of Christ is applied to our hearts Wherever the grace of God brings salvation, it teaches the believer to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, an godly in this present world, consenting to, and delighting in the word of God's law, after the inward man. In this holy walk, true peace an solid joy are to be found __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ארור 779 האישׁ 376 אשׁר 834 יעשׂה 6213 פסל 6459 ומסכה 4541 תועבת 8441 יהוה 3068 מעשׂה 4639 ידי 3027 חרשׁ 2796 ושׂם 7760 בסתר 5643 וענו 6030 כל 3605 העם 5971 ואמרו 559 אמן׃ 543
