Comentario sobre Deuteronómio 32:19

[AND THE ETERNAL SAW, AND SPURNED,] BECAUSE OF THE PROVOKING OF HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS. Scripture uncustomarily mentions here “the daughters” — for just as he said above lo banav⁶⁵Above, Verse 5. [which although literally means “not His sons,” it is yet the custom of Scripture to use it for sons and daughters, rather than specify daughters separately], and so also wherever he mentions banim (sons) the daughters are included. [Why then does the verse before us make special reference to His daughters?] But this phrase is among his [Moses’] allusions, for, in the generation of the destruction [of the First Temple], the wickedness of the women and their sin would be very great because they provoked G-d. They were especially attached to the idols, and it was they who enticed the men to worship them, as is made clear in the words of Jeremiah, Then all the men who knew that their wives offered unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly.⁶⁶Jeremiah 44:15. It was they [the women] who were impudent against the prophet, saying to him, But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to offer unto the queen of heaven.⁶⁷Ibid., Verse 17. And it is further written there, in that ye provoke Me with the works of your hands, offering unto other gods,⁶⁸Ibid., Verse 8. and again it is stated, Have ye forgotten the wicked deeds of your fathers, and the wicked deeds of the kings of Judah, and the wicked deeds of their wives?⁶⁹Ibid., Verse 9. And in the Book of Ezekiel it is further stated, He said also unto me: ‘Thou shalt again see yet greater abominations which they do.’ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Eternal’s House, which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.⁷⁰Ezekiel 8:13-14. Ezekiel was a contemporary of Jeremiah whose prophetic activity was in Babylon.

וינאץ מכעס בניו ובנותיו, after He had failed to make you attain your perfection while on your own land, He chose a third route, namely to refine your character while you were in exile; by doing this He appeared to despise His sons and His daughters, and did not display mercy on their children nor respect the dignity of their daughters.

בניו ובנותיו, בנים לא אמון בם. We explained this already on verse 5 where we understood it as a reference to Israel’s character flaw of disloyalty.