2 Kings 23:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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idolatrous priests. black-robed; not kohen, as appointed by God, but kemarlm, as appointed by man. Compare Hosea 10:5; Zephaniah 1:4.

Planets. stations: i.e. the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Hebrew. mazzaloth. Spelled Mazzaroth in Job 38:32. stations. The Babylonian name for the divisions of the zodiac. Called in the Assyrian inscriptions "Mauzalti". (See Western Asiatic Inscriptions.)

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2 Kings 23:5

5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.