2nd Chronicles Chapter 14 verse 5 Holy Bible
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
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And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
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and he turneth aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - The images; Hebrew, חַמָּנֹים. The images spoken of here are, of coarse, not the same with those (noted upon already) of ver. 3. The present khammanim are mentioned seven times beside, viz. Leviticus 26:30; 2 Chronicles 34:4, 7; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9; Ezekiel 6:4, 6. Gesenius says Khamman is an epithet of Baal as bearing rule over the sun (חַמָה, "heat," or "the sun"), in the oft-found compound expression, בַֹּעַל חַמָּן; he thinks the plural (חַמָּנִים), invariably found in the Old Testament, is short for בְּעָלִים חַמָּנִים. He does not agree with the translation of Haenaker ('Miscell. Phoen.,' p. 50), "sun-image" by aid of the word פֶסֶל understood, images said to have been of a pyramid form, and placed in the most sacred positions of Baal-temples. This, however, is the rendering adopted by not a few modern commentators (so 2 Chronicles 34:4). Gesenius would render "the Sun-Bard," or "the Sun-Lord," i.e. statues of the sun, representing a deity to whom (see ' Phoen. Inseript.') votive stones,were inscribed. In his 'Thesaurus' (p. 489) Gesenius instances the Phoenician inscriptions, as showing that our chemmanim denoted statues of both Baal, the sun-god, and Astarte, the moon-goddess.
