1Ki 11:7, 33, Amo 5:26, Act 7:43 | TSK | STEP | build an high. Chemosh. abomination. the 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.

1 Kings 11:7

build an high.

Le 26:30; Nu 33:52; 2Ki 21:2,3; 23:13,14; Ps 78:58; Eze 20:28,29

Chemosh.

abomination.

De 13:14; 17:3,4; 27:15; Isa 44:19; Eze 18:12; Da 11:31; 12:11

the 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 1:9,12

1 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 4:17

Ashtoreth.

5-8

Amos 5:26

the tabernacle of your Moloch. or, Siccuth your king.

Le 18:21; 20:2-5; 1Ki 11:33; 2Ki 23:12,13

Milcom.

Acts 7:43

ye took.

Le 18:21; 20:2-5; 2Ki 17:16-18; 21:6

figures.

Ex 20:4,5; De 4:16-18; 5:8,9

and I.

2Ki 17:6; 18:11; Am 5:27

Babylon.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.