Exo 32:20, 2Sa 5:21, Isa 10:9-11, 36:18-20, 46:1-2 | TSK | STEP | 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. made the.

‏ 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

‏ 2 Samuel 5:21

David.

De 7:5,25; 1Sa 5:2-6; 1Ch 14:11,12; Isa 37:19

burned them. or, took them away.

Isa 46:1,2; Jer 43:12

‏ Isaiah 10:9-11

Calno.

Am 6:1,2

Calneh.

Carchemish.

2Ch 35:20; Jer 46:2

Hamath.

36:19; 37:13; 2Sa 8:9; 2Ki 17:24; Jer 49:23

Samaria.

7:8; 17:3; 2Ki 16:9; 17:5,6; 18:9,10

the kingdoms.

14; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:12,13,17-19; 2Ch 32:12-16,19

as I have.

36:19,20; 37:10-13

‏ Isaiah 36:18-20

lest.

7,10,15; 37:10; Ps 12:4; 92:5-7

Hath.

37:12,13,17,18; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:12,13,17,18; 2Ch 32:13-17

Ps 115:2-8; 135:5,6,15-18; Jer 10:3-5,10-12; Da 3:15; Hab 2:19,20

Hamath.

Nu 34:8; 2Sa 8:9

Arphad.The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ['Arpâd .]

10:9; Jer 49:23

Arpad.

Sepharvaim.Calmet is of opinion that Sepharvaim was the capital of the Saspires, who, according to Herodotus, were the only people that inhabited between the Colchians and Medes; and probably the Sarapases, whom Strabo places in Armenia. Hiller considers the name as denoting Sephar of the Parvaim, i.e., Mount Sephar adjacent to the regions of Arabia called Parvaim. But it is more probable, as Wells and others suppose, that Sepharvaim is the [Sipphara,] Sipphara, of Ptolemy, the [Sipparenon polis,] the city of the Sippareni, mentioned by Abydenus, and probably the Hipparenum of Pliny, a city of Mesopotamia, situated upon the Euphrates, near where it is divided into two arms, by one of which, it is probable, it was divided into two parts.

2Ki 17:24

and have.

10:10,11; 2Ki 17:5-7; 18:10-12

that the Lord.

37:18,19,23-29; 45:16,17; Ex 5:2; 2Ki 19:22-37; 2Ch 32:15,19

Job 15:25,26; 40:9-12; Ps 50:21; 73:9; Da 3:15

‏ Isaiah 46:1-2

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves.

3 God saves his people to the end.

5 Idols are not comparable to God for power,

12 or present salvation.

Bel.Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.

21:9; 41:6,7; Ex 12:12; 1Sa 5:3; Jer 48:1-25; 50:2; 51:44,47,52

a burden.

2:20; Jer 10:5

they could.

36:18,19; 37:12,19; 44:17; 45:20

but.

Jud 18:17,18,24; 2Sa 5:21; Jer 43:12,13; 48:7

themselves are. Heb. their soul is.