Exo 32:20, Lev 26:30, Deu 7:5, 25-26, 9:21, 1Ki 15:14-24, 2Ch 14:3-5, 34:7 | 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

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy.

1Ki 13:2; 2Ki 23:8,16,20; 2Ch 14:3-5; 23:17; 31:1; 34:3-7; Isa 27:9

Jer 8:1-3; Eze 6:3-6,13

my soul.

11,15; 20:23; Ps 78:58,59; 89:38; Jer 14:19

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 7:25-26

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

shalt.

13:17; Le 27:28,29; Jos 6:17-24; 7:1-25,11-26; Eze 14:7

Hab 2:9-11; Zec 5:4

but thou shalt.

Isa 2:20; 30:22; Eze 11:18; Ho 14:8; Ro 2:22

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took.

Ex 32:20; Isa 2:18-21; 30:22; 31:7; Ho 8:11

the brook.This was the stream which flowed from the rock that Moses smote with his rod, (Ex 17:6,) and to which the Psalmist alludes in Ps 78:16-20; 105:41. Philo relates, that upon Moses' striking the rock, the water poured out like a torrent, affording not only a sufficient quantity for allaying their present thirst, but to fill their water vessels, to carry with them on their journey.

1 Kings 15:14-24

the high places.

22:43; 2Ki 12:3; 14:4; 15:4; 2Ch 14:3,5

was perfect.

3; 8:61; 11:4; 2Ch 15:17,18; 16:9; 25:2

he brought.

7:51; 1Ch 26:26-28; 2Ch 14:13; 15:18

things. Heb. holy.

6,7,32; 14:30; 2Ch 16:1-6

A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.

27; 2Ch 16:1-6

Ramah.By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.

21; Jos 18:25; 1Sa 15:34; Jer 31:15

he might not suffer.

12:27; 2Ch 11:13-17

Asa.

15; 14:26; 2Ki 12:18; 18:15,16; 2Ch 15:18; 16:2-6

Ben-hadad.

20:1-5,33,34; 2Ki 8:7-15

Damascus.

11:23,24; Ge 14:15; 15:2; Jer 49:27; Am 1:4

There is a league.

2Ch 19:2; Isa 31:1

break thy league.

2Sa 21:2; 2Ch 16:3; Eze 17:13-16; Ro 1:31; 3:8

depart. Heb. go up.

Ijon.Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus, (Eze 48:1;) and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy.

2Ki 15:29

Dan.

12:29; Ge 14:14; Jud 18:29

Abel-beth-maachah.

2Sa 20:14,15

Cinneroth.

Jos 11:2; 12:3

when Baasha.

2Ch 16:5

Tirzah.

14:17; 16:15-18; So 6:4

made a proclamation.