Deuteronomy 4:19
when thou.17:3; 2Ki 23:4,5,11; Job 31:26,27; Jer 8:2; Eze 8:16; Am 5:25,26the host.Ge 2:1; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42; Ro 1:25which the Lord.Ge 1:16-18; Jos 10:12,13; Ne 9:6; Ps 74:16,17; 136:7-9; 148:3-5Jer 31:35; 33:25; Mt 5:45divided. or, imparted.Deuteronomy 17:3
the sun.4:19; 2Ki 21:3; Job 31:26,27; Jer 8:2; Eze 8:16which.Jer 7:22,23,31; 19:5; 32:352 Kings 23:5
put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim. Ho 10:5; *marg:"Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5." planets. or, twelve signs, or constellations.So the Vulgate {duodecim signa,} "the twelve signs," i.e., the zodiac; which is the most probable meaning of the word {mazzaloth,} from the Arabic {manzeel,} a {caravanserai,} house, or dwelling, as being the apparent dwellings of the sun in his annual course; and the Targumists and Rabbins often employ the words {tereysar mazzalaya,} to denote the signs of the zodiac. all the host.21:3,4; Jer 8:1,2; 44:17-192 Kings 23:11
the sun.5; 2Ch 14:5; 34:4; Eze 8:16house 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.Job 31:26-28
beheld.Ge 1:16-18; De 4:19; 11:16; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,11; Jer 8:2; Eze 8:16sun. Heb. light. the moon.Ps 8:3,4; Jer 44:17in brightness. Heb. bright. my heart.De 11:16; 13:6; Isa 44:20; Ro 1:21,28my mouth hath kissed my hand. Heb. my hand hath kissed mymouth. 1Ki 19:18; Ps 2:12; Ho 13:2 an.11; 9:15; 23:7; Ge 18:25; De 17:2-7,9; Jud 11:27; Ps 50:6; Heb 12:23for.Jos 24:23,27; Pr 30:9; Tit 1:16; 2Pe 2:1; 1Jo 2:23; Jude 1:4Jeremiah 44:17
whatsoever.25; Nu 30:2,12; De 23:23; Jud 11:36; Ps 12:4; Mr 6:26queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake. 7:18; 2Ki 17:16as we.19:13; 32:29-32; 2Ki 22:17; Ne 9:34; Da 9:6-8our fathers.Ne 9:34; Ps 106:6; Eze 20:8; Da 9:5,6,8; 1Pe 1:18in the cities.9,21then.Ex 16:3; Isa 48:5; Ho 2:5-9; Php 3:19victuals. Heb. bread.Acts 7:42-43
and gave.Ps 81:11,12; Isa 66:4; Eze 14:7-10; 20:25,39; Ho 4:17; Ro 1:24-282Th 2:10-12the host.De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Job 31:26-28; Jer 19:13; Eze 8:16O ye.Am 5:25,26have ye.Isa 43:23of forty.Ps 95:10; Heb 3:9,15-17 ye took.Le 18:21; 20:2-5; 2Ki 17:16-18; 21:6figures.Ex 20:4,5; De 4:16-18; 5:8,9and I.2Ki 17:6; 18:11; Am 5:27Babylon.In the passage of Amos, to which Stephen refers, it is beyond Damascus; but as Assyria and Media, to which they were carried, were not only beyond Damascus, but beyond Babylon itself, he states that fact, and thus fixes more precisely the place of their captivity.
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