1 Kings 11:7
built ... high place <01129 01116> [build an high.]
god Chemosh <03645> [Chemosh.]
detestable ........ detestable <08251> [abomination.]
hill <02022> [the hill.]
This was the mount of Olives, which lay east of Jerusalem; and that the Hebrews would consider before it, while the west would be behind it; for the very term used to denote the east, {kedem,} means before, while {acharon,} behind, sometimes signifies the west.
1 Kings 11:33
abandoned <05800> [they have forsaken.]
Astarte <06253> [Ashtoreth.]
Amos 5:26
Sikkuth <05522 04428> [the tabernacle of your Moloch. or, Siccuth your king.]
[Milcom.]
Acts 7:43
you took along <353> [ye took.]
images <5179> [figures.]
But ......... and .............. but I will deport <2532 3351> [and I.]
Babylon <897> [Babylon.]
In the passage of Amos, to which Stephen refers, it is beyond Damascus; but as Assyria and Media, to which they were carried, were not only beyond Damascus, but beyond Babylon itself, he states that fact, and thus fixes more precisely the place of their captivity.
