I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 30. Places. The temple of Solomon was built on Mount Moria or Sion. The Persians sacrificed upon the mountains, and the Romans and Athenians built their most magnificent temples on the highest parts of their respective cities.—Idols. Hebrew chammanim, denotes the chariots dedicated to the sun; (4 Kennicott. 23:11,) or the pyreia, or enclosures for the sacred fire, in honour of the god Homanus, (Strabo xv.) whose name is probably derived from this Hebrew word, ( Calmet.) as well as Hammon, a title of Jupiter. Menochius.—Ruins. Hebrew “and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your gods of dirt, and my soul shall vomit you out.” The Egyptians embalmed the carcasses of their sacred animals. God threatens that, if his people be so stupid as to adore them, they shall die, and be deprived of sepulture.