Gen 1:16-18, Deu 4:19, 11:16, 17:3, 2Ki 23:5, 11, Jer 8:2, Eze 8:16 | TSK | STEP | to rule. Heb. for the rule, etc. he made the stars also. Or, with the stars also.

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 Kings 23:11

the sun.

5; 2Ch 14:5; 34:4; Eze 8:16

house of the Lord.Throughout the East, the horse because of his swiftness and utility, was dedicated to the sun; and the Greeks and Romans feigned that the chariot of the sun was drawn by four horses, Pyrous, Eous, Aithon, and Phlegon: and hence also chariots were dedicated to that luminary. Jarchi says, that those who adored the sun had horses, which they mounted every morning, to go out to meet him at his rising. The kings of Judah had imitated these idolatrous customs, and kept the horses of the sun even at the entrance of the temple of the Lord!

chamberlain. or, eunuch, or officer.

Jeremiah 8:2

and all.

19:13; 44:17-19; De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3,5; 23:5; 2Ch 33:3-5

Eze 8:16; Zep 1:5; Ac 7:42

they shall be.

9:22; 16:4; 22:19; 36:30; 2Ki 9:36,37; Ps 83:10; Ec 6:3; Zep 1:17

Ezekiel 8:16

the inner.

10:3; 40:28; 43:5; 45:19

at the door.

2Ki 16:14; 2Ch 7:7; Joe 2:17

about.

11:1

with their.

23:35; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ch 29:6; Jer 2:27; 32:33

their faces.

De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,11; Job 31:26-28; Jer 44:17; Ac 7:42,43

and they.It seems that the Jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun.