2 Kings 23:7-14
the sodomites Gen 19:4-5; 1Kgs 14:24, 1Kgs 15:12, 1Kgs 22:46; 2Chr 34:33; Rom 1:26-27 where Exod 35:25-26; Ezek 8:14, Ezek 16:16; Hos 2:13 hangings Heb. houses from etc. The northern and southern borders of Judah. Geba Josh 21:17; 1Kgs 15:22; 1Chr 6:60; Isa 10:29; Zech 14:10 Beersheba Gen 21:31, Gen 26:23; Judg 20:1; 1Kgs 19:3 the priests Ezek 44:10-14; Mal 2:8-9 but they did 1Sam 2:36; Ezek 44:29-31 Topheth Isa 30:33; Jer 7:31-32, Jer 19:6, Jer 19:11-13, Tophet the valley Josh 15:8; 2Chr 28:3, 2Chr 33:6; Jer 19:2, Jer 32:35; Matt 5:22 *Gr. might make 2Kgs 16:3, 2Kgs 17:17, 2Kgs 21:6; Lev 18:21; Deut 18:10; Jer 32:35; Ezek 16:21, Ezek 20:26, Ezek 20:31; Ezek 23:37-39 the sun 2Kgs 23:5; 2Chr 14:5, 2Chr 34:4; Ezek 8:16 house of the Lord Throughout the East, the horse because of his swiftness and utility, was dedicated to the sun; and the Greeks and Romans feigned that the chariot of the sun was drawn by four horses, Pyrous, Eous, Aithon, and Phlegon, and hence also chariots were dedicated to that luminary. Jarchi says, that those who adored the sun had horses, which they mounted every morning, to go out to meet him at his rising. The kings of Judah had imitated these idolatrous customs, and kept the horses of the sun even at the entrance of the temple of the Lord! chamberlain or, eunuch, or officer on the top Deut 22:8; Jer 19:13; Zeph 1:5 which Manasseh 2Kgs 21:5, 2Kgs 21:21-22; 2Chr 33:5, 2Chr 33:15 brake them down from thence or, ran from thence cast 2Kgs 23:6 the mount of corruption that is, the mount of Olives, Houbigant, deriving the Hebrew mashchith from mashach, "to anoint," reads "the Mount of Olives." Jarchi, following the Chaldee, also says this was the Mount of Olives; for this is the mount hammishchah, of unction, but because of the idolatrous purposes for which it was used, the Scripture changed the appellation to the mount of hammashchith, corruption. Solomon 1Kgs 11:7; Neh 13:26 Ashtoreth Judg 2:13, Judg 10:6; 1Sam 7:4, 1Sam 12:10; 1Kgs 11:5, 1Kgs 11:33 Chemosh Num 21:29; Judg 11:24; Jer 48:7, Jer 48:13, Jer 48:16 Milcom Zeph 1:5, Malcham he brake Exod 23:24; Num 33:52; Deut 7:5, Deut 7:25-26; 2Chr 34:3-4; Mic 1:7 images Heb. statues the bones of men 2Kgs 23:16; Num 19:16, Num 19:18; Jer 8:1-2; Ezek 39:12-16; Matt 23:27-28
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