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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Babylon
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2Ki 17:24 |
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Succothbenoth
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"Succoth benoth, literally ""the tents of the daughters.""" |
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Cuth
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Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (Gen 2:13,) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Coėthians, or Coėtę, and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Cythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc. |
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Nergal
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Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock. |
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Ashima
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Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat. |
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2Ki 17:24 |
And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. |
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Gen 2:13 |
And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Kings 17:30," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Ki/17/30.html>.
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