2Ki 23:5, 2Ch 14:5, 34:4, Eze 8:16 | TSK | STEP | put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim. "Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5." 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.

‏ 2 Kings 23:5

put down. Heb. caused to cease. the idolatrous priests.Heb. Chemarim.

Ho 10:5; *marg:"Foretold. Zep 1:4, 5."

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 Chronicles 14:5

images. Heb. sun-images.

34:4; *marg:

‏ 2 Chronicles 34:4

brake down.

33:3; Ex 23:24; Le 26:30; De 7:5,25

images. or, sun images.

14:5; 2Ki 23:4,5,11

made dust.

7; Ex 32:20; De 9:21; 2Ki 23:12; Ps 18:42; Isa 27:9

graves. Heb. face of the graves.

2Ki 10:26,27; 23:4,6

‏ 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.