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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 23:13
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the high places that were before Jerusalem, etc.] Not only that were within the city, and at the gates of it, but what were without it: which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption: the mount of Olives, so called from the idolatry and corrupt worship performed in it, by way of reproach, with a small alteration of the letters of the word tyjçm for hjçm; at the right hand, or south of this mountain, as the Targum; though others say f284, on the north side of the mount of Olives, four furlongs or half a mile from Jerusalem, were high places: which Solomon king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon; of which (See Gill on “<111105>1 Kings 11:5”) (See Gill on “<111107>1 Kings 11:7”) did the king defile; by casting unclean things into them. Rauwolff f285 says, “before Mount Zion toward the south, at the other side of the rivulet Kidron, lies the mount of transgression, called Mashith, (<122313>2 Kings 23:13), this is higher and steeper than any hereabout; there you still see some old walls of habitations, wherein the concubines of Solomon did live;” and Mr. Maundrell f286 observes, that below the hill stands now a village called Siloe, where it is said he kept them.
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