and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 31. Hevites, who came from Ava.—Nebahaz. “Nebo the seeing, or living and possessing.” Nebo was a famous idol of Babylon.—Tharthac; perhaps Sar, (prince) Sak, or Sesac, (Jeremiah 25:26 and 51:41) the sun, and so forth—Adramelech, “the magnificent king,” and Anamelech, “the king of clemency,” may denote the sun and moon; as these were the divinities commonly adored in the East, under various names. The same victims were offered to these as to Moloc and Saturn; whence we may infer, that they were the same idols. S. Jerom translates the work of Eusebius on the Hebrew ( Calmet.) and places without any disapprobation of his opinion, that Socoth-benoth, and so forth were the names of towns, which the people built in Samaria. Bible.