2 Kings 17:30
| Overview - 2 Kings 17 | |
| 1 | Hoshea's wicked reign. |
| 3 | Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt. |
| 5 | Samaria for sinning is led into captivity. |
| 24 | The strange nations which were transplanted into Samaria, being plagued with lions, make a mixture of religions. |
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2 Kings 17:30 (King James Version)
And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
- Babylon
- 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 (Ge 2:13,) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Cothians, or Cot, 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.
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