2 Kings 17:30-31
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 12:28,31Jeremiah 11:13
For according.2:28; 3:1,2; De 32:16,17; 2Ki 23:4,5,13; Isa 2:8; Ho 12:11up altars.19:5; 32:35; 2Ki 21:4,5shameful thing. Heb. shame.Hosea 10:1
1 Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry, and exhorted to repentance. Cir. A.M. 3264. B.C. 740. is.Isa 5:1-7; Eze 15:1-5; Na 2:2; Joh 15:1-6an empty vine. or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth.unto. Zec 7:5,6; Ro 14:7,8; 2Co 5:16; Php 2:21to the multitude.2:8; 8:4,11; 12:8,11; 13:2,6; Jer 2:28images. Heb. statues, or standing images.Le 26:1; 1Ki 14:23; *marg:
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