1 Kings 11:5
Ashtoreth.33; Jud 2:13; 10:6; 1Sa 7:3,4; 12:10; 2Ki 23:13; Jer 2:10-13Milcom.7; Le 18:21; 20:2-5Molech.Zep 1:5Malcham.1 Kings 11:7
build an high.Le 26:30; Nu 33:52; 2Ki 21:2,3; 23:13,14; Ps 78:58; Eze 20:28,29Chemosh.Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; Jer 48:13abomination.De 13:14; 17:3,4; 27:15; Isa 44:19; Eze 18:12; Da 11:31; 12:11Re 17:4,5the hill.This was the mount of Olives, which lay east of Jerusalem; and that the Hebrews would consider before it, while the west would be behind it; for the very term used to denote the east, {kedem,} means before, while {acharon,} behind, sometimes signifies the west. Ge 33:2; 2Sa 15:30; 2Ki 23:13; Zec 14:4; Mt 26:30; Ac 1:9,121 Kings 11:33
they have forsaken.9; 3:14; 6:12,13; 9:5-7; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Jer 2:13; Ho 4:17Ashtoreth.5-81 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; 17:162 Kings 17:16
molten images.Ex 32:4,8; 1Ki 12:28; Ps 106:18-20; Isa 44:9,10a grove.10; 1Ki 14:15,23; 15:13; 16:33worshipped.De 4:19; Jer 8:2Baal.10:18-28; 11:18; 1Ki 16:31; 22:532 Kings 17:29-31
made gods.Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-5; Ho 8:5,6; Mic 4:5Ro 1:23 Babylon.24Succoth benoth.{Succoth benoth,} literally "the tents of the daughters." Cuth.Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (Ge 2:13,) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Coëthians, or Coëtæ, and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Cythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc. Nergal.Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock. Ashima.Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat. the Avites.24; Ezr 4:9Nibhaz.Supposed to be the same as the Anubis of the Egyptians; and was in form partly a dog and partly a man. burnt their children.17; Le 18:21; De 12:28,312 Kings 23:13
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.1Ki 11:7; Ne 13:26Ashtoreth.Jud 2:13; 10:6; 1Sa 7:4; 12:10; 1Ki 11:5,33Chemosh.Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; Jer 48:7,13,16Milcom.Zep 1:5Malcham.
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