Deuteronomy 29:26
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New International Version (©2011)
They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They began to worship other gods, bowing down to gods they had not known--gods that the LORD had not permitted them to worship.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They followed and worshipped other gods whom they had not known and whom he did not assign to them.

NET Bible (©2006)
They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them. These were gods they never heard of, gods the LORD didn't permit them to have.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

American King James Version
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

American Standard Version
and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:

Darby Bible Translation
and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.

English Revised Version
and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Webster's Bible Translation
For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to them:

World English Bible
and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

Young's Literal Translation
and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them -- gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:22-28 Idolatry would be the ruin of their nation. It is no new thing for God to bring desolating judgments on a people near to him in profession. He never does this without good reason. It concerns us to seek for the reason, that we may give glory to God, and take warning to ourselves. Thus the law of Moses leaves sinners under the curse, and rooted out of the Lord's land; but the grace of Christ toward penitent, believing sinners, plants them again in their land; and they shall no more be pulled up, being kept by the power of God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 26. - Gods... whom he had not given unto them (cf. Deuteronomy 4:19).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,.... As did all Israel, in the times of Solomon, and the ten tribes under Jeroboam, and other succeeding kings of Israel; and the two tribes in the times of Ahaz, and especially of Manasseh, when they worshipped all the host of heaven; see 1 Kings 11:33,

gods whom they knew not; to whom they, as well as their fathers before them, were strangers and approved not of them; and of whose power and goodness they had no experience, and of which there never were any instances; yet such was their stupidity, as to leave their God, the only true God, of whom they had many proofs in both respects, and worship these idols, which had never been profitable and serviceable to them on any account:

and whom he hath not given unto them; which version seems not to afford a good sense; for to what people soever has God, the true God, given other gods to worship, which this seems to imply, though he had not given or allowed any to them? Onkelos paraphrases it, "did not do them good"; which Jarchi explains, the gods they chose them did not impart to them any inheritance, or any portion; for the word used signifies to divide, or part a portion or inheritance; now the Lord God did divide to Israel the land of Canaan for an inheritance, but these idols had never divided anything to them, and had been in no instance profitable or advantageous to them; and therefore it was madness and folly in them to worship them, as well as great ingratitude to the Lord their God, who had done such great and good things for them; for so the words may be rendered, "and did not impart" or "divide to them" (g) anything; that is, not anyone of them did; for the verb is singular.

(g) "qui nihil impertitus est eis", Pagninus; "et quorum nullus impertitus fuerat eis quidquem", Piscator; "neque partitus est ipsis", Cocceius.

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The Covenant in Moab
…25Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book: …

Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods--gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
Deuteronomy 29:25 And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 29:27 Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.
2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
Jeremiah 16:11 then say to them, 'It is because your ancestors forsook me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law.
Jeremiah 44:3 because of the evil they have done. They aroused my anger by burning incense to and worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever knew.