2 Könige 23:7

7 Und er riß die Häuser der Buhler nieder, die sich im Hause Jehovas befanden, worin die Weiber Zelte webten für die Aschera.

2 Könige 23:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:7

And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the
house of the Lord
Near the temple were apartments, in which men, the worshippers of idols, prostituted their bodies to each other; committing that unnatural sin with one another, which has its name from Sodom, and from which those are so called, and which sin they committed in honour of the idols they worshipped; to such vile affections were they, in a judicial manner, delivered up, because of their idolatry; see ( Romans 1:27 Romans 1:28 ) the word signifies "Holy Ones", they being called so by an antiphrasis; though Abarbinel thinks these were the idolatrous priests, whom the worshippers of idols reckoned "holy", and so built houses for them near the temple to lodge in; the Targum is,

``and broke down the houses of things consecrated to idols,''

where they were put; and Theodoret on the place observes, that by an homonymy, they called the demons or idols themselves "Holy Ones"; and it is not likely, indeed, that the Sodomites should be

where the women wove hangings for the grove;
that is, for Astarte, as the same writer observes: or "curtains", as the Jewish writers generally interpret it, in which either the idol was enclosed, or these made apartments for the idolaters to commit their abominable wickedness privately; though the Syriac and Arabic versions are,

``they wove garments for the idols that were there;''

and so the Septuagint version, of the Complutensian edition; that is, they wove garments for the goddess Astarte, which they dressed her with: the word signifies "houses", and may mean the shrines of the idol made of woven work.

2 Könige 23:7 In-Context

5 Und er schaffte die Götzenpriester ab, welche die Könige von Juda eingesetzt hatten, und die auf den Höhen, in den Städten von Juda und in der Umgebung von Jerusalem geräuchert hatten; und die, welche dem Baal, der Sonne und dem Monde und dem Tierkreise und dem ganzen Heere des Himmels räucherten.
6 Und er schaffte die Aschera aus dem Hause Jehovas hinaus, außerhalb Jerusalems, in das Tal Kidron; und er verbrannte sie im Tale Kidron und zermalmte sie zu Staub und warf ihren Staub auf die Gräber der Kinder des Volkes.
7 Und er riß die Häuser der Buhler nieder, die sich im Hause Jehovas befanden, worin die Weiber Zelte webten für die Aschera.
8 Und er ließ alle Priester aus den Städten Judas kommen, und verunreinigte die Höhen, wo die Priester geräuchert hatten, von Geba bis Beerseba. Und er riß die Höhen der Tore nieder, die am Eingang des Tores Josuas, des Obersten der Stadt, und die am Stadttore zur Linken jedes Eintretenden waren.
9 Doch opferten die Priester der Höhen nicht auf dem Altar Jehovas zu Jerusalem, sondern sie aßen Ungesäuertes in der Mitte ihrer Brüder.
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