Nehemiæ 34:4

Nova Vulgata

Destruxeruntque coram eo aras Baalim; et thymiamateria, quae eis superposita fuerant, demolitus est; palos etiam et sculptilia et conflatilia succidit atque comminuit et super tumulos eorum, qui eis immolare consueverant, fragmenta dispersit.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Destruxeruntque coram eo aras Baalim : et simulacra, quæ superposita fuerant, demoliti sunt : lucos etiam, et sculptilia succidit atque comminuit : et super tumulos eorum, qui eis immolare consueverant, fragmenta dispersit.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Destruxeruntque coram eo aras Baalim, et simulacra quæ superposita fuerant, demoliti sunt: lucos etiam et sculptilia succidit atque comminuit, et super tumulos eorum qui eis immolare consueverant, fragmenta dispersit.

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.