Deu 4:19, 17:3, 2Ki 17:16, 21:3, 5, 23:5, 2Ch 33:3-5, Jer 19:13, 44:17-19 | TSK | STEP | when thou. the host. which the Lord. divided. or, imparted.

a 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 6:16

and worshipped.

17:16; 23:4; De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ch 33:3-5; Job 31:26

2 Kings 21:5

in the two courts.

23:4,6; 1Ki 6:36; 7:12; 2Ch 33:5,15; Eze 40:28,32,37,47; 42:3; 43:5

Eze 44:19

2 Kings 23:5

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

2 Chronicles 33:3-5

he built again. Heb. he returned and built.

Ec 2:19; 9:18

which Hezekiah.

30:14; 31:1; 32:12; 2Ki 18:4; 21:3

he reared.

28:2-4; Jud 2:11-13

made groves.

De 16:21; 1Ki 14:23; Jer 17:2

the 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 7:30

In 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

Jeremiah 19:13

defiled.

2Ki 23:10,12,14; Ps 74:7; 79:1; Eze 7:21,22

upon.

32:29; 2Ki 23:12; Zep 1:5

have poured.

7:18

Jeremiah 44:17-19

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.

we have.

40:12; Nu 11:5,6; Job 21:14,15; Ps 73:9-15; Mal 3:13-15

we burned.

15; 7:18

without.

Ge 3:6,11,12,16,17; De 7:3,4; 1Ki 21:25; 2Ch 21:6; Pr 11:21

Mr 6:19-27

men. or, husbands.