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2 Chroniques 34:4

On détruisit en sa présence les autels des Baals, et il abattit les colonnes solaires qui étaient dessus. Il brisa les emblèmes d'Ashéra, les images taillées et les images de fonte; et les ayant réduites en poudre, il la répandit sur les tombeaux de ceux qui leur avaient sacrifié.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ephraim;   Groves;   Josiah;   Simeon;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Idol, idolatry;   Josiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Grave;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baal (1);   Burial;   Idol;   Josiah;   Sun;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Josiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Idolatry;   Quarry;   Sun;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Carved Work;   Josiah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hin'nom;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Goldsmith;   Images;   Kidron, the Brook;   Sun-Worship;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Pesel;   Pillar;  

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et on démolit devant lui les autels des Baals, et il abattit les colonnes consacrées au soleil, qui étaient en haut au-dessus d'eux; et il brisa les ashères, et les images taillées et les images en fonte, et les broya, et en répandit la poussière sur les sépulcres de ceux qui leur avaient sacrifié;
Louis Segond (1910)
On renversa devant lui les autels des Baals, et il abattit les statues consacrées au soleil qui étaient dessus; il brisa les idoles, les images taillées et les images en fonte, et les réduisit en poussière, et il répandit la poussière sur les sépulcres de ceux qui leur avaient sacrifié;
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et on démolit en sa présence les autels des Bahalins, et on mit en pièces les tabernacles qui étaient au dessus d'eux; il coupa aussi les bocages, et brisa les images de taille et de fonte, et les ayant réduites en poudre, il répandit cette poudre sur les tombeaux de ceux qui leur avaient sacrifié.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brake down: 2 Chronicles 33:3, Exodus 23:24, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25

images: or, sun images, 2 Chronicles 14:5, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:5, 2 Kings 23:11

made dust: 2 Chronicles 34:7, Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 9:21, 2 Kings 23:12, Psalms 18:42, Isaiah 27:9

graves: Heb. face of the graves, 2 Kings 10:26, 2 Kings 10:27, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:13 - ye shall 1 Kings 13:2 - Josiah by name 1 Kings 15:13 - destroyed 2 Kings 11:18 - went 2 Kings 23:14 - he brake 2 Chronicles 14:3 - brake 2 Chronicles 23:17 - the house of Baal 2 Chronicles 30:14 - altars 2 Chronicles 33:4 - he built Isaiah 17:8 - images Jeremiah 8:1 - General Ezekiel 6:4 - images Zephaniah 1:4 - the remnant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence,.... He not only ordered them to be broke down, but he went in person, and saw it done; these were the altars Manasseh had reared up to the idols; and though upon his humiliation he cast them out, they were rebuilt by Amon his son, see 2 Chronicles 33:3,

and the images that were above them he cut down; sun images, as the word signifies; these Chamanim might be representatives of Cham or Ham, the son of Noah, the same with Jupiter Ammon; and there was another Heathen deity, Amanus, Strabo w speaks of, supposed to be the sun,

2 Chronicles 33:3- :, these, as Jarchi says, were in the form of the sun, and were set above the altars, over against the sun, to whom worship was paid; though some think this respects not place, but time, and that these were images in times past; in the preceding age, as the Tigurine version:

and the groves, and the carved images and the molten images, he brake in pieces; ordered them to be broken; the groves were statues, or images in groves, and thereby distinguished from those made of wood, and were carved, and from those that were of molten metal, and were placed elsewhere:

and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them, see 2 Kings 23:6.

w Geograph l. 11. p. 352.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The images - Margin, sun-images. See Leviticus 26:30 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 34:4. The altars of Baalim — How often have these been broken down, and how soon set up again! We see that the religion of a land is as the religion of its king. If the king were idolatrous, up went the altars, on them were placed the statues, and the smoke of incense ascended in ceaseless clouds to the honour of that which is vanity, and nothing to the world; on the other hand, when the king was truly religious, down went the idolatrous altars, broken in pieces were the images, and the sacrificial smoke ascended only to the true God: in all these cases the people were as one man with the king.


 
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