The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. Offence; Olivet. Bible.—In the original, the terms are very much alike; and the Jews take a pleasure in deforming names, for which they had a horror. Solomon had erected temples here to various idols, (3 Kennicott. 11:7) which had probably been demolished by Ezechias, but had been rebuilt under Amon, and so forth and subsisted during the minority of Josias; ( Calmet.) or they had been neglected by the pious kings of Juda, as no longer dangerous. But Josias, in the fervour of his zeal, thought proper to remove every thing that had been the occasion of offence: Hebrew “of corruption.”—Idol, and scandal, and abomination, are the same in Heb.