* whatsoever.
25 Nu 30:2,12 De 23:23 Jud 11:36 Ps 12:4 Mr 6:26
* queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.
As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal
shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or
King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth
hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn
addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear,
goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses
her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In
Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of
the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the
Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and
character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by
holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by
offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics
were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake.
7:18 2Ki 17:16
* as we.
19:13 32:29-32 2Ki 22:17 Ne 9:34 Da 9:6-8
* our fathers.
Ne 9:34 Ps 106:6 Eze 20:8 Da 9:5,6,8 1Pe 1:18
* in the cities.
9,21
* then.
Ex 16:3 Isa 48:5 Ho 2:5-9 Php 3:19
* victuals. Heb. bread.
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