Lev 18:3, 24-28, Deu 12:30-31, 2Ki 16:3, 10-11, Eze 8:10, 14, 16, 16:44-47 | TSK | STEP

abomination to the. Heb. abomination of the. even theirsons. The unnatural and horrid practice of offering human sacrifices not only existed, but universally prevailed among ancient nations. We have already (Note on Lev 20:2) referred to the custom among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, descendants from the Canaanitish nations, of sacrificing their children to Moloch, or Saturn; and we will now cite a passage from Diodorus Siculus, (lib. xx.) which immediately precedes that already produced relative to this barbarous custom. He states that the Carthaginians imputed their being besieged by Agathocles to the anger of Saturn, because, instead of sacrificing the best of their own children, as formerly, they had sacrificed children bought for that purpose. "In haste, therefore, to rectify their errors, they chose 200 of the noblest children, and publicly sacrificed them! Others, accused of irreligion, voluntarily gave themselves up, to the number of no less than 300!"

18:10; Le 18:21; 20:2; Jer 7:31; 32:35; Eze 20:31; 23:27; Mic 6:7

2 Kings 16:3

he walked.

8:18; 1Ki 12:28-30; 16:31-33; 21:25,26; 22:52,53; 2Ch 22:3; 28:2-4

made his son.

17:17; 23:10; Le 18:21; 20:2; De 12:31; 18:10; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37

Ps 106:38; Jer 32:35; Eze 16:21; 20:26,31

according.

21:2,11; De 12:31; 1Ki 14:24; 2Ch 33:2; Ps 106:35; Eze 16:47

2 Kings 16:10-11

saw an altar.

De 12:30; 2Ch 28:23-25; Jer 10:2; Eze 23:16,17; Ro 12:2; 1Pe 1:18

the pattern.

Ex 24:4; 39:43; 1Ch 28:11,12,19; Ps 106:39; Eze 43:8,11; Mt 15:6,9

built an altar.

1Ki 21:11-13; 2Ch 26:17,18; Jer 23:11; Eze 22:26; Da 3:7; Ho 4:6

Ho 5:11; Mal 2:7-9; Ga 1:10

Urijah.

Isa 8:2

Ezekiel 8:10

and behold.These images portrayed on the wall were no doubt the objects of Egyptian idolatry, the ox, ape, crocodile, ibis, beetle, etc., as we find those idols were painted on the walls of the tombs of kings and nobles.

every.

Ex 20:4; Le 11:10-12,29-31,42-44; De 4:18; 14:3,7,8; Isa 57:6-10

Jer 2:26,27; 3:9; 16:18; Ro 1:23

Ezekiel 8:14

toward.

44:4; 46:9

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.