2 Kings 17:29-31
made gods Ps 115:4-8, Ps 135:15-18; Isa 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-5; Hos 8:5-6; Mic 4:5; Rom 1:23 Babylon 2Kgs 17:24 Succoth benoth Succoth benoth, literally "the tents of the daughters." Cuth Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (Gen 2:13), the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Coethians, or Coete, 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 2Kgs 17:24; Ezra 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 2Kgs 17:17; Lev 18:21; Deut 12:28, Deut 12:31
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