Exo 15:11, Deu 5:7, 6:5, 14, Jos 24:18-24, 2Ki 17:29-35, Psa 29:2, 73:25 | TSK | STEP | like unto thee. gods. or, mighty ones. glorious. fearful.

Ye are witnesses.Ye have been sufficiently apprised of the difficulties in your way--of God's holiness, and the nature of his service--your own weakness, inconstancy, and insufficiency--your need of the Divine help, and the hope of assistance held out in the law--and the awful consequences of apostasy: and now ye make your choice. Remember then that ye are witnesses against yourselves; and your own conscience will be witness, judge, and executioner.

De 26:17; Job 15:6; Lu 19:22

ye have.

Ps 119:11,173; Lu 10:42

put away.

14; Ge 35:2-4; Ex 20:23; Jud 10:15,16; 1Sa 7:3,4; Ho 14:2,3,8

1Co 10:19-21; 2Co 6:16-18

incline.

Pr 2:2; Heb 12:28,29

De 5:28,29

2 Kings 17:29-35

made gods.

Ps 115:4-8; 135:15-18; Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-5; Ho 8:5,6; Mic 4:5

Ro 1:23

Babylon.

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

made unto themselves.

1Ki 12:31; 13:33

the houses.

29; 23:19; 1Ki 13:31

They feared.

41; 1Ki 18:21; Ho 10:2; Zep 1:5; Mt 6:24; Lu 16:13

whom they carried, etc. or, who carried them away fromthence. The new inhabitants of the land imitated the idolatrous Israelites, by associating their idols with Jehovah, as the objects of worship. The remainder, however, of the verses seem to relate to the Israelites after they were carried captive. They still persevered in idolatry and disobedience; and not being purified, were left to be consumed in the furnace. It is said that the Israelites "did not fear the Lord," yet the heathens, who followed their example, are said "to have feared the Lord." The Israelites did not so much as fear the wrath of Almighty God; but, on the other hand, the poor pagans feared the power of his wrath, and to avert it paid some ignorant worship, according to the wretched instructions given them. As this was an external acknowledgement of his power and Godhead, and a homage paid to him,he was pleased in consequence to withdraw his judgements from them.--SCOTT

fear not.

25,27,28,33

whom he named Israel.

Ge 32:28; 33:20; 35:10; 1Ki 11:31; 18:11; Isa 48:1

With whom.

15; Ex 19:5,6; 24:6-8; De 29:10-15; Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:6-13

charged them.

Ex 20:4,5; 34:12-17; De 4:23-27; 13:1-18; Jos 23:7,16

fear other gods.

Jud 6:10; Jer 10:5