2Ch 29:3-11, 34:21, Jer 9:14, 44:17, Eze 20:18, Mat 23:32, 1Pe 1:18 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. He in the first. opened.

turned their backs. Heb. given the neck. Those, says Matthew Henry, who turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. The lamps were not lighted, and incense was not burnt: there are still such neglects as these, and they are no less culpable, if the Word be not duly read and opened, answering to the lighting of the lamps, and if prayers and praises be not duly offered up, which was signified by the burning of incense.

3; 28:24; Le 24:2-8; 2Ki 16:17,18; Mal 1:10

Wherefore.

24:18; 34:24,25; 36:14-16; De 28:15-20

he hath delivered.It is probable Hezekiah refers to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites, in which one hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred thousand taken prisoners: see ch. 28:6-8.

trouble. Heb. commotion.

De 28:25

to astonishment.

Le 26:32; De 28:59; 1Ki 9:8; Jer 18:15,16; 19:8; 25:9,18; 29:18

our fathers.

28:5-8,17; Le 26:17; La 5:7

Now it is.

6:7,8

to make a covenant.To renew that covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign, and the spirit of which was, "I will be your God, ye shall be my people."

15:12,13; 23:16; 34:30-32; Ezr 10:3; Ne 9:38; 10:1-39; Jer 34:15,18

Jer 50:5; 2Co 8:5

that his fierce.

2Ki 23:3,26

negligent. or, deceived.

Ga 6:7,8

the Lord

Nu 3:6-9; 8:6-14; 18:2-6; De 10:8

burn incense. or, offer sacrifice.

Nu 16:35-40; 18:7

2 Chronicles 34:21

enquire.

Ex 18:15; 1Sa 9:9; 1Ki 22:5-7; Jer 21:2; Eze 14:1-11; 20:1-7

that are left.

28:6; 33:11; 2Ki 17:6,7; 22:13; Isa 37:2-4; Jer 42:2

great.

Le 26:14-46; De 28:15; 29:18-28; 30:17-19; 31:16-22; 32:15-25

Ro 1:18; 2:8-12; 4:15

Jeremiah 9:14

walked.

3:17; 7:24; Ge 6:5; Ro 1:21-24; Eph 2:3; 4:17-19

imagination. or, stubbornness. which.

44:17; Zec 1:4,5; Ga 1:14; 1Pe 1:18

Jeremiah 44:17

whatsoever.

25; Nu 30:2,12; De 23:23; Jud 11:36; Ps 12:4; Mr 6:26

queen 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 17:16

as we.

19:13; 32:29-32; 2Ki 22:17; Ne 9:34; Da 9:6-8

our fathers.

Ne 9:34; Ps 106:6; Eze 20:8; Da 9:5,6,8; 1Pe 1:18

in the cities.

9,21

then.

Ex 16:3; Isa 48:5; Ho 2:5-9; Php 3:19

victuals. Heb. bread.