2 Chronicles 23:17
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Mattan the priest - The Targum will not prostitute the term priest, but calls him כומרא cumera, priestling.
Here we have, I. The people pleased, Ch2 23:12, Ch2 23:13. When the king stood at his pillar, whose right it was to stand there, all the people of the land rejoiced to see a rod sprung out of the stem…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Then all R.V. And all.
the house of Baal When this was erected is not known, perhaps under Jehoram (2Ch 21:6) or Ahaziah (2Ch 22:3), but it was doubtless intended for the worship of the Tyrian Baal,…
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