Exodus 12:12

pass.

23; 11:4,5; Am 5:17

will smite.

29,30; 11:4-6

against.

Nu 33:4; 1Sa 5:3; 6:5; 1Ch 14:12; Isa 19:1; Jer 43:13; Zep 2:11

gods. or, princes.

21:6; 22:28; Ps 82:1,6; Joh 10:34,35

I am the Lord.

6:2; Isa 43:11-15; Eze 12:16

Exodus 32:20

took the calf.How truly contemptible must the object of their idolatry appear, when they were obliged to drink their god, reduced to powder, and strewed on the water! Some have asked, how gold, the most ductile and ponderous of all metals, could have been stamped into dust, and strewed on the water. In De 9:21, this is fully explained. I took, says Moses, your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire; that is, melted it down, probably into ingots or gross plates, and stamped it, beat it into thin laminæ, something like our gold leaf, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust, which might be very easily done by the action of the hands, when beat into thin plates or leaves as the original words {ekkoth,} and {dak,} imply.

De 7:5,25; 9:21; 2Ki 23:6,15

made the.

Pr 1:31; 14:14

Deuteronomy 7:5

destroy.

12:2,3; Ex 23:24; 34:13; 2Ki 23:6-14

images. Heb. statues, or pillars.

16:22; Le 26:1

and cut.

Jud 6:25,26

burn.

25; 9:21; Ex 32:20

Deuteronomy 7:25

graven.

5; 12:3; Ex 32:20; 1Ch 14:12; Isa 30:22

thou shalt.

Jos 7:1,21

snared.

Jud 8:24-27; Zep 1:3; 1Ti 6:9,10

an abomination.

17:1; 23:18; Re 17:5

1 Samuel 5:2-6

of Dagon.

Jud 16:23; 1Ch 10:10; Da 5:2,23; Hab 1:11,16

Dagon was.

Ex 12:12; Ps 97:7; Isa 19:1; 46:1,2; Zep 2:11; Mr 3:11; Lu 10:18-20

2Co 6:14-16

set him.

Isa 19:1; 40:20; 41:7; 44:17-20; 46:1,2,7; Jer 10:8

the head.

Isa 2:18,19; 27:9; Jer 10:11; 50:2; Eze 6:4-6; Da 11:8; Mic 1:7

of Dagon.The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish: and it is supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman, and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us: [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike etheésamén, theéma xenon; émisen men gyné; to de okoson ek mérón es akrous podas, ichtlyos ouré apoteinetai;] "In Phoenicia I saw the image of Derceto; a strange sight truly! For she had the half of a woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail." Diodorus, (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon, says, [to men prosópon echei synaikos, to d'allo sóma pan ichthyos.] "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body a fish's." Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in De Art. Poet. v. 4; {Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa superne:} "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower part a fish." If such was the form of this idol, then everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a fish.

the stump. or, the fishy part.

neither.

Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-18

tread.

Jos 5:15; Zep 1:9

the hand.

7,11; Ex 9:3; Ps 32:4; Ac 13:11

emerods.

9,11; 6:5; De 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66

thereof.The LXX. and Vulgate add: [Kai meson tés choras autés anephyésan myes kai egeneto synchysis thanatou megalé en té polei; {Et ebullierunt villæ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magnæ in civitate; "And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city."

6:4,5

2 Kings 19:18

have cast. Heb. have given.

2Sa 5:21; Isa 46:1,2

for they were.

Ps 115:4-8; Isa 37:18,19; 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-9,14-16; Ac 17:29
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