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2 Reyes 16:3

Kings 16:3"> 3 Antes anduvo en el camino de los reyes de Israel, y aun hizo pasar por el fuego á su hijo, según las abominaciones de las gentes que Jehová echó de delante de los hijos de Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahaz;   Children;   Fire;   Idolatry;   Molech;   Offerings;   Rulers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Canaan, Land of;   Heathen;   Human;   Sacrifices;   The Topic Concordance - Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heathen, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hinnom;   Pekah;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Assyria;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hell;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pekah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Micah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Assyria, History and Religion of;   Baal;   Gentiles;   High Place;   Hinnom, Valley of;   Human Sacrifice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Alliance;   Damascus;   Molech, Moloch;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   Assyria ;   Baal, Baalim ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Joash;   Pekah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hin'nom;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moloch;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Baal (1);   Fire;   Firstborn;   Molech;   Pass;   Sacrifice, Human;   Yea;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
sino que anduvo en el camino de los reyes de Israel, y aun hizo pasar a su hijo por el fuego, conforme a las abominaciones de las naciones que el Señor había arrojado de delante de los hijos de Israel.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Antes anduvo en el camino de los reyes de Israel, y aun hizo pasar por el fuego a su hijo, según las abominaciones de las gentes que Jehová echó de delante de los hijos de Israel.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
antes anduvo en el camino de los reyes de Israel, y aun hizo pasar por el fuego a su hijo, según las abominaciones de los gentiles que el SEÑOR echó de delante de los hijos de Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he walked: 2 Kings 8:18, 1 Kings 12:28-30, 1 Kings 16:31-33, 1 Kings 21:25, 1 Kings 21:26, 1 Kings 22:52, 1 Kings 22:53, 2 Chronicles 22:3, 2 Chronicles 28:2-4

made his son: 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 23:10, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 20:2, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 18:10, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Psalms 106:37, Psalms 106:38, Jeremiah 32:35, Ezekiel 16:21, Ezekiel 20:26, Ezekiel 20:31

according: 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:11, Deuteronomy 12:31, 1 Kings 14:24, 2 Chronicles 33:2, Psalms 106:35, Ezekiel 16:47

Reciprocal: Leviticus 18:27 - General 2 Kings 15:37 - In those days 2 Kings 17:8 - walked 2 Kings 17:19 - walked 2 Kings 21:6 - he made 2 Chronicles 28:3 - burnt Isaiah 57:5 - under Ezekiel 11:12 - but Ezekiel 16:20 - and these Micah 1:5 - they Micah 1:13 - for Micah 6:7 - shall Micah 6:16 - the works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel..... Worshipping the calves as they did; which, as it was contrary to the religious sentiments in which he was educated, so against his political interest, which was the only, or at least the principal thing, which swayed with the kings of Israel to continue that idolatry:

yea, and made his son to pass through the fire; between two fires to Molech, by way of lustration; which might be true of Hezekiah his son, and others of his sons, for he had more he burnt with fire, as appears from 2 Chronicles 28:3, both ways were used in that sort of idolatry,

2 Chronicles 28:3- :,

according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel; the old Canaanites; so the Carthaginians, a colony of the Phoenicians, used in time of calamity to offer human sacrifices, and even their children, to appease their deities l. Theodoret says, he had seen in some cities, in his time, piles kindled once a year, over which not only boys, but men, would leap, and infants were carried by their mothers through the flames; which seemed to be an expiation or purgation, and which he takes to be the same with the sin of Ahaz.

l Justin. e Trogo, Hist. l. 18. c. 6. Curt. Hist. l. 4. c. 3. Pescennius Festus apud Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ahaz was the worst of all the kings of Judah. He imitated the worst of the Israelite kings - Ahab and Ahaziah - by a re-introduction of the Baal worship, which had been rooted out of Israel by Jehu and out of Judah by Jehoiada.

And made Iris son to pass through the fire - i. e. Ahaz adopted the Moloch worship of the Ammonites and Moabites 2 Kings 3:27; Micah 6:7, and sacrificed at least one son, probably his firstborn, according to the horrid rites of those nations, and the Canaanite tribes Deuteronomy 12:31; Psalms 106:37-38. Hereto, apparently, the Jews had been guiltless of this abomination. They had been warned against it by Moses (marginal reference; Deuteronomy 18:10); and if (as some think) they had practiced it in the wilderness Ezekiel 20:26; Amos 5:26, the sin must have been rare and exceptional; from the date of their entrance into the promised land they had wholly put it away. Now, however, it became so frequent (compare 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6) as to meet with the strongest protest from Jeremiah and Ezekiel (Jeremiah 7:31-32; Jeremiah 19:2-6; Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 20:26; Ezekiel 23:37, etc.).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 16:3. Made his son to pass through the fire — On this passage I beg leave to refer the reader to my notes on Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 20:14, where the subject is considered at large.


 
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