Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 106:36
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
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.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 36. They served their idols] 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 Ps 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, Jud 2:3, or the act of serving and worshipping them,
Ex 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
36. They served their idols This was but a natural result of such friendships as those against which they had been forewarned.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Ver. 36. And they served their idols ] The devil is , 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.
Which were a snare unto them
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Which were = And they became. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read “And it became”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 106:36-39
Psa 106:36-39
SIN NO. 9
This sin was the moral ethical, and religious destruction of Israel that resulted from their adoption of the shameful practices of the heathen populations of Canaan. The full account of this terminal sin of the chosen people begins to unfold in Joshua, is accelerated in the Book of Judges, and reaches its climax in the writings of the Major prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel.
Only the most meager outline of Israel’s ultimate debauchery appears here.
“And (Israel) served their idols,
Which became a snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and daughters unto demons,
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.
Thus were they defiled with their works,
And played the harlot in their doings.”
To rehearse the full record of what is so briefly stated here would require a detailed study of a major portion of the Old Testament.
The child-sacrifice was practiced even by Israel’s kings (2Ki 16:3; Eze 16:20; Isa 57:5).
“They played the harlot in their doings” (Psa 106:39). This is an accurate description of the idol worship in Canaan. Their pagan sex and fertility gods were “worshipped” with the most unbelievably vulgar and licentious ceremonies involving the patronage of the multitudes of religious prostitutes who were the principle sensual attraction of the shrines and high places of Canaan. There was certainly a great deal more involved than merely “bowing down” in front of some idol.
E.M. Zerr
Psa 106:34-36. This paragraph is on the one subject of the mixing up with the heathen. The reader may see a detailed account of the subject in Judges 1, 2
Psa 106:37. The Hebrew word for devils that is used here occurs only twice in the Bible; the other place being in Deu 32:17. This verse is concerned with the human sacrifices to idolatrous worship. For further comments and numerous citations on the subject see comments at 2Ki 16:3 in the Commentary.
Psa 106:38. Shedding of innocent blood is the slaying of innocent persons. When a man is slain who is worthy of death it is not the shedding of innocent blood. The children of these idolaters were not guilty of any wrong, therefore it was the shedding of innocent blood to slay them in sacrifice to idols.
Psa 106:39. Went a whoring means they went lusting for the practices of false worship. Their inventions means their conduct that sprang from their own hearts.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
And: Psa 78:58, Exo 34:15, Exo 34:16, Jdg 2:12, Jdg 2:13, Jdg 2:17, Jdg 2:19, Jdg 3:5-7, Jdg 10:6, 2Ki 17:8-11, 2Ki 17:16, 2Ki 17:17, 2Ch 33:2-9, Eze 16:15-63, Eze 20:28-32
which: Exo 23:33, Deu 7:16, Jos 23:13, Jdg 2:3, Jdg 2:14, Jdg 2:15
Reciprocal: Exo 34:12 – lest Isa 24:5 – defiled Jer 12:16 – as they