2 Kings 21:3-7
the high places.18:4,22; 2Ch 32:12; 34:3he reared.10:18-20; 1Ki 16:31-33; 18:21,26a grove.Rather, as we have before remarked, Asherah or Astarte. So Castel defines Asherah to be {Simulacrum ligneum Astartæ dicatum;} "A wooden image dedicated to Astarte." Ahab.8:18,27; Mic 6:16and worshipped.17:16; 23:4; De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ch 33:3-5; Job 31:26 he built.16:10-16; Jer 32:34In Jerusalem.Ex 20:24; De 12:5; 2Sa 7:13; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3; Ps 78:68,69; 132:13,14 in the two courts.23:4,6; 1Ki 6:36; 7:12; 2Ch 33:5,15; Eze 40:28,32,37,47; 42:3; 43:5Eze 44:19 A.M. 3321. B.C. 683. he made.16:3; 17:17; Le 18:21; 20:2,3; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Mic 6:7observed times.Le 19:26,31; De 18:10-14familiar.1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19; 19:3; Ac 16:16wrought.24:3,4; Ge 13:13 A.M. 3306-3327. B.C. 698-677. he set.23:6; 2Ch 33:7,15In this house.4; 23:27; 2Sa 7:13; 1Ki 8:29,44; 9:3,7; 2Ch 7:12,16,20; Ne 1:9Ps 74:2; 78:68,69; 132:13,14; Jer 32:342 Kings 23:5-7
put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim. Ho 10:5; *marg:"Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5." planets. or, twelve signs, or constellations.So the Vulgate {duodecim signa,} "the twelve signs," i.e., the zodiac; which is the most probable meaning of the word {mazzaloth,} from the Arabic {manzeel,} a {caravanserai,} house, or dwelling, as being the apparent dwellings of the sun in his annual course; and the Targumists and Rabbins often employ the words {tereysar mazzalaya,} to denote the signs of the zodiac. all the host.21:3,4; Jer 8:1,2; 44:17-19 the grove.Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte. 21:7; Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:23; 16:33; Jer 17:2and burned.Ex 32:20; De 7:25; 9:21the graves.10:27; 2Ch 34:4the children.Probably the common people. the sodomites.Ge 19:4,5; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ch 34:33; Ro 1:26,27where.Ex 35:25,26; Eze 8:14; 16:16; Ho 2:13hangings. Heb. houses.2 Kings 23:11-12
the sun.5; 2Ch 14:5; 34:4; Eze 8:16house of the Lord.Throughout the East, the horse because of his swiftness and utility, was dedicated to the sun; and the Greeks and Romans feigned that the chariot of the sun was drawn by four horses, Pyrous, Eous, Aithon, and Phlegon: and hence also chariots were dedicated to that luminary. Jarchi says, that those who adored the sun had horses, which they mounted every morning, to go out to meet him at his rising. The kings of Judah had imitated these idolatrous customs, and kept the horses of the sun even at the entrance of the temple of the Lord! chamberlain. or, eunuch, or officer. on the top.De 22:8; Jer 19:13; Zep 1:5which Manasseh.21:5,21,22; 2Ch 33:5,15brake them down from thence. or, ran from thence. cast.62 Chronicles 33:3-7
he built again. Heb. he returned and built.Ec 2:19; 9:18which Hezekiah.30:14; 31:1; 32:12; 2Ki 18:4; 21:3he reared.28:2-4; Jud 2:11-13made groves.De 16:21; 1Ki 14:23; Jer 17:2the host.De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,6,11; Jer 8:2; 19:13; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42 he built.15; 34:3,4; 2Ki 21:4,5; Jer 7:30In Jerusalem.6:6; 7:16; 32:19; De 12:11; 1Ki 8:29; 9:3 in the two.4:9; Jer 32:34,35; Eze 8:7-18 caused.28:3; Le 18:21; 20:2; De 12:31; 18:10; 2Ki 21:6; 23:10; Jer 7:31,32Eze 23:37,39he observed.Le 19:26; 20:6; De 18:10-14; 1Sa 15:23; 2Ki 17:17; Isa 47:9-12Ga 5:20dealt.2Ki 21:6; 23:24; 1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19; 19:3 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 78:68Ezekiel 16:31
In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine,etc. 24,39makest.25; Ho 12:11in that thou scornest.33,34; Isa 52:3Ezekiel 16:39
And I.For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people. they shall throw.24,25,31; 7:22-24; Isa 27:9shall strip.10-20; 23:26,29; Isa 3:16-24; Ho 2:3,9-13thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.Ezekiel 20:28-29
when I.Jos 23:3,4,14; Ne 9:22-26; Ps 78:55-58the which.6,15; Ge 15:18-21; 26:3,4; Ps 105:8-11they saw.6:13; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5-7; Jer 2:7; 3:6their sweet.16:19 I said, etc. or, I told them what the high place was, or,Bamah. And the. 16:24,25,31
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