1 Kings 12:28
took counsel.8,9; Ex 1:10; Isa 30:1two calves of gold.He invented a political religion, and instituted feasts in his own times, different from those appointed by Jehovah; gave the people certain objects of adoration, and pretended to think that it would be both inconvenient and oppressive to them to go up to Jerusalem to worship. These calves were doubtless of the same kind as the calf which was set up by Aaron; and it is remarkable, that in pointing them out to the people he should use the same words that Aaron used on that occasion, when they must have heard what terrible judgments fell upon their forefathers for this idolatry. Solomon's idolatry, however, had prepared the people for Jeroboam's abominations. Ex 20:4; De 4:14-18; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16; 2Ch 11:15; Ho 8:4-7; 10:5,6It is too much.Isa 30:10; 2Pe 2:19behold.Ex 32:4,82 Chronicles 33:7
he set a carved image.The Targumist says, "He set up an image, the likeness of himself, in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is, "a graven image of the grove," or rather, Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh, as Bp. Patrick observes, seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law, that he might practice it: a most prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time, into the sink of impiety in this! in the house.2Ki 21:7,8; 23:6God had said.4; 1Ki 8:29; Ps 132:13,14which I have.6:6; 1Ki 8:44,48; 11:13,32; Ps 78:68Psalms 97:7
Confounded.Ex 20:4; Le 26:1; De 5:8; 27:15; Isa 37:18,19; 41:29; 42:17; 44:9-11Jer 10:14; Re 14:8-10worship.Ex 25:20; 2Ch 3:13; Heb 1:6; 1Pe 1:12; Re 5:11-14Psalms 115:4-8
Their idols.They are metal, stone, and wood; and though generally made in the form of man, they can neither see, hear, smell, feel, walk, nor speak! Even the wiser heathen made them the objects of their jests. 97:7; 135:15-17; De 4:28; Isa 40:19,20; 42:17; 46:1,2,6,7Jer 10:3-5; Ho 8:6; Hab 2:18-20; Ac 19:26,35; 1Co 10:19,20 5 6 7 135:18; Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:8; Jon 2:8; Hab 2:18,19Psalms 135:15-18
idols.115:4-8; De 4:28; Isa 37:19; 40:19,20; 44:9-20; 46:6,7; Jer 10:3-11Hab 2:18,19; Ac 17:29 eyes have they.Isa 6:10; Mt 13:14-16 17 They that.97:7; 115:8; Isa 44:18-20; Jer 10:8; 2Co 4:4Isaiah 40:18-20
25; 46:5,9; Ex 8:10; 9:14; 15:11; 20:4; De 33:26; 1Sa 2:2; Job 40:9Ps 86:8-10; 89:6,8; 113:5; Jer 10:6,16; Mic 7:18; Ac 17:29Col 1:15; Heb 1:3 37:18,19; 41:6,7; 44:10-12; 46:6,7; Ex 32:2-4; Jud 17:4; Ps 115:4-8Ps 135:15,18; Jer 10:3-5,9; Ho 8:6; Hab 2:18,19 is so impoverished that he hath no oblation. Heb. is poor ofoblation. chooseth. 2:8,9; 44:13-19; Jer 10:3,4; Da 5:23shall not.41:7; 46:7; 1Sa 5:3,4
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