Komentaryo sa Deuteronomio 29:16: Rashi, Bekhor Shor, Rabbeinu Bahya & Siftei Chakhamim

ותראו את שקוציהם AND YE HAVE SEEN THEIR ABOMINABLE THINGS — Idols are so termed because they are loathsome like unclean things that are held in abomination.

And you saw all the detestable things and the disgusting things of wood and stone that they themselves think (are thought?) as disgusting things, that they make an idol of wood or stone. When it is new they serve it, and when it is blurred(?) they detest it and throw it into the disgusting thing [i.e. dungheap] and into the dirt of the streets. And when it does not do what they want, they curse it and degrade it, as it says "and when they are hungry, they shall rage and revolt against their king and their divine beings" (Yeshayahu 8:21) and when they curse others, say: O, it is like their god who is unable to help them, like "By you shall Israel give-blessings"... (Bereishit 48:20), and it does not say "they shall curse their king and their God".

"of gold and silver that are with them" When they make an image of silver and gold, after they serve it for one or two years they say: This isn't working at all, I will make another. And they break it and grind it, and there is "silver and gold that are with it", since it's expensive. And one could explain: that it itself is gold or silver, there they are with it and beside it, since they are afraid of it being stolen, since it can't guard itself even from mice. And you will see that they serve this and leave it, and serve another, and they have no authority over them, rather whoever wants worships and whoever wants leaves, everyone according to the desires of their heart. And they cleave to theft and robbery, promiscuity and incest, all that their hearts desire they do. And this is something in the heart of a person to do "the stubbornness of their heart" (ref to Devarim 29:18). And therefore you need to accept all of you the covenant, the curses and the oaths, that you will stand by the tradition of the covenant.

גלליהם THEIR IDOLS — thus termed because they are detestable (lit., malodorous) and loathsome like dung (גלל).

עץ ואבן [AND YE HAVE SEEN … THEIR IDOLS] WOOD AND STONE — Those of wood and stone you have seen exposed openly, because the heathen was not afraid lest they might be stolen; those of gold and silver, however, ARE WITH THEM (עמהם), in their “marbled halls” (cf. Rashi on Ezekel 8:12 whence he borrowed this expression), because they were afraid they might be stolen (Midrash Tanchuma, Nitzavim 3).