1 Kings 16:31
as if it had been a light thing. Heb. was it a light thing.Ge 30:15; Nu 16:9; Isa 7:13; Eze 8:17; 16:20,47; 34:18took to wife.Ge 6:2; De 7:3,4; Jos 23:12,13; Ne 13:23-29Jezebel.18:4,19; 19:1,2; 21:5-14,25; 2Ki 9:30-37; Re 2:20the Zidonians.11:1; Jud 10:12; 18:7and went.11:4-8served Baal.21:25,26; Jud 2:11; 3:7; 10:6; 2Ki 10:18; 17:16Ezekiel 8:17
Is it a light, etc. or, Is there any thing lighter than tocommit, etc. for. 7:23; 9:9; 11:6; Ge 6:13; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; Jer 6:7; 19:4; 20:8Am 3:10; 6:3; Mic 2:2; 6:12; Zep 1:9they put.So the Vulgate has, {applicant ramum ad nares suas,} "they apply the branch to their nose;" which Jerome explains by "a branch of the palm tree with which they adored the idols;" and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us, held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire.
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