2 Crónicas 28:2

Listen to 2 Crónicas 28:2
2 Antes anduvo en los caminos de los reyes de Israel, y adem谩s hizo im谩genes de fundici贸n a los Baales.

2 Crónicas 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 Sotah, c. 2. sect. 2. Menachot, c. 9. sect. 3.
F19 Sotah, c. 2. sect. 2.
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2 Crónicas 28:2 In-Context

1 De veinte a帽os era Acaz cuando comenz贸 a reinar, y diecis茅is a帽os rein贸 en Jerusal茅n; mas no hizo lo recto en ojos del SE脩OR, como David su padre.
2 Antes anduvo en los caminos de los reyes de Israel, y adem谩s hizo im谩genes de fundici贸n a los Baales.
3 Quem贸 tambi茅n incienso en el valle de los hijos de Hinom, y quem贸 sus hijos por fuego, conforme a las abominaciones de los gentiles que el SE脩OR hab铆a echado delante de los hijos de Israel.
4 Asimismo sacrific贸 y quem贸 incienso en los altos, y en los collados, y debajo de todo 谩rbol espeso.
5 Por lo cual el SE脩OR su Dios lo entreg贸 en manos del rey de los sirios, los cuales le derrotaron, y cogieron de 茅l una grande presa, que llevaron a Damasco. Fue tambi茅n entregado en manos del rey de Israel, el cual lo hiri贸 con gran mortandad.
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