2 Crônicas 28:2

2 mas andou nos caminhos dos reis de Israel, e até fez imagens de fundição para os baalins.

2 Crônicas 28:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:17

And the priest shall take holy water
Out of the laver, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra:

in an earthen vessel;
which held half a log, and that was but a quarter of a pint, or three egg shells; for no more was assigned, to a suspected woman, according to the Misnah ^F18. Some say only a fourth part: an earthen vessel was made use of, as everything vile and mean was in this affair:

and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest
shall take, and put [it] into the water;
first the water was put in, and then the dust, as Ben Gersom observes: there was a place a cubit square, where was a marble table, and a ring fixed in it, and when he lifted it up he took dust from under it, and put it so as it might be upon the top of the water ^F19; which was used, either, as the Targum of Jonathan suggests, because the end of all flesh is to come to dust, and so to put her in mind of her original and her end; and in like manner the earthen vessel might signify, that she would be broke to pieces as that vessel; as also it might direct her thoughts to the tempter, by the influence of whose temptation she had been drawn into this sin, dust being the serpent's food; and this being taken off the floor of the tabernacle, might add to the veneration of it, and make it more solemn and awful to drink of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Sotah, c. 2. sect. 2. Menachot, c. 9. sect. 3.
F19 Sotah, c. 2. sect. 2.

2 Crônicas 28:2 In-Context

1 Tinha Acaz vinte anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezesseis anos em Jerusalém. E não fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor, como Davi, seu pai;

2 mas andou nos caminhos dos reis de Israel, e até fez imagens de fundição para os baalins.

3 Também queimava incenso no vale do filho de Hinom, e queimou seus filhos no fogo, conforme as abominações das nações que o senhor expulsara de diante dos filhos de Israel.

4 E sacrificava e queimava incenso nos altos e nos outeiros, como também debaixo de toda árvore frondosa.

5 Pelo que o Senhor seu Deus o entregou na mão do rei dos sírios, os quais o derrotaram e tomaram-lhe em cativeiro grande multidão de presos, que levaram para Damasco. Foi também entregue na mão do rei de Israel, o qual lhe infligiu grande derrota,