1 Kings 11:7 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 11:7

At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

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ASV

Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

KJV

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Mesh,.... Of this idol see Gill on Jer 48:7, an high place for which he ordered to be built, or at least suffered it to be built, at the instigation of his Moabitish woman or women, 1Ki 11:1, this was built in the hill that is before Jerusalem; on the mount of Olives, as Jarchi, called from hence afterwards the mount of corruption, 2Ki 23:15 and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon, 1Ki 11:5.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

An high place - That is, an altar upon the high place, as the manner of the Heathens was. The hill - In the mount of olives, which was nigh unto Jerusalem, 2 Sam. xv, 30, and from this act was called the mount of corruption, 2 Kings xxiii, 13.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Chemosh (Num 21:29 note), seems to have been widely worshipped in Western Asia. His name occurs frequently on the “Moabite-Stone.” Car-Chemish, “the fort of Chemosh,” a great city of the northern Hittites, must have been under his protection. In Babylon he seems to have been known as Chomus-belus, or Chemosh-Bel. The hill - Olivet.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Ashtoreth--Astarte, Milcom--Molech, and Chemosh--He built altars for these three; but, although he is described (1Ki 11:8) as doing the same for "all his strange wives," there is no evidence that they had idols distinct from these; and there is no trace whatever of Egyptian idolatry.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָז֩	'az	then	H227 →
יִבְנֶ֨ה	yiv.Neh	he built	H1129 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
בָּמָ֗ה	ba.Mah	a high place	H1116 →
לִכְמוֹשׁ֙	likh.mo.Vosh	for Chemosh	H3645 →
שִׁקֻּ֣ץ	shi.Kutz	[the] detestable thing of	H8251 →
מוֹאָ֔ב	mo.'Av	Moab	H4124 →
בָּהָ֕ר	ba.Har	on the mountain	H2022 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
וּלְמֹ֕לֶךְ	u.le.Mo.lekh	and for Molech	H4432 →
שִׁקֻּ֖ץ	shi.Kutz	[the] detestable thing of	H8251 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
עַמּֽוֹן׃	a.Mon	Ammon	H5983 →

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Through
Acts 7:43
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
leads to
- Amos 5:26–27
  You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
- Exodus 20:4–5
  You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
Through
Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
leads to
- Judges 11:24
  Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 48:46
  Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
- 2 Kings 23:13
  The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh…
Through
Judges 11:24
Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
leads to
- Micah 4:5
  Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Psalms 78:55
  He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Numbers 21:29
  Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

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