2 Kings 17:24-30
king <04428> [A.M. 3326. B.C. 678. the king.]
Babylon <0894> [Babylon.]
Avva <05755> [Ava.]
[Ivah. Hamath.]
cities .................. cities <05892> [in the cities thereof.]
worship <03372> [they feared.]
Lord .... Lord sent <07971 03068> [the Lord sent.]
settled <03427> [and placed.]
know ... requirements ........................ know ... requirements <03045 04941> [know not.]
one .... priests <03548 0259> [one of the priests.]
Bethel <01008> [in Bethel.]
taught ..... worship <03384 03372> [taught them.]
made .... gods .................. made <06213 0430> [made gods.]
Babylon <0894> [Babylon.]
Succoth Benoth <05524> [Succoth benoth.]
{Succoth benoth,} literally "the tents of the daughters."
Cuth <03575> [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, Co‰thians, or Co‰t‘, and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Cythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc.
Nergal <05370> [Nergal.]
Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock.
Ashima <0807> [Ashima.]
Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat.
