Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
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Gill's Exposition
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Mesh,.... Of this idol see Gill on Jer 48:7, an high place for which he ordered to be built, or at least suffered it to be built,…
Barnes' Notes
Chemosh (Num 21:29 note), seems to have been widely worshipped in Western Asia. His name occurs frequently on the “Moabite-Stone.” Car-Chemish, “the fort of Chemosh,” a great city of the northern…
Adam Clarke
The hill that is before Jerusalem - This was the Mount of Olives.
This is a sad story, and very surprising, of Solomon's defection and degeneracy.
I. Let us enquire into the occasions and particulars of it. Shall Solomon fall, that was the beauty of Israel, and so…
Cambridge Bible
a high place That -high places" were not abolished in Solomon's time we can see from 1Ki 3:2-3, where see notes. The idea was that on a lofty height the worshipper drew nearer to his god, and so was…
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