2 Kings 17:30-31

Babylon.

24

Succoth 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 4:9

Nibhaz.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 12:28,31

Jeremiah 11:13

For according.

2:28; 3:1,2; De 32:16,17; 2Ki 23:4,5,13; Isa 2:8; Ho 12:11

up altars.

19:5; 32:35; 2Ki 21:4,5

shameful 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 15:1-6

an empty vine. or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth.unto.

Zec 7:5,6; Ro 14:7,8; 2Co 5:16; Php 2:21

to the multitude.

2:8; 8:4,11; 12:8,11; 13:2,6; Jer 2:28

images. Heb. statues, or standing images.

Le 26:1; 1Ki 14:23; *marg:
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