The mount of corruption, i.e. the Mount of Olives, 1 Kings 11:7, here called the mount of corruption, for the gross idolatry there practised, which is oft expressed by the name of corruption. See Exodus 32:7 Deuteronomy 32:5. In the Hebrew is an elegant allusion between miscah, anointing, and masheith, corruption, as there is between Beth-el and Beth-aven, Hosea 4:15. Which Solomon had builded; not the same individual altars; which doubtless either Solomon upon his repentance, or some other of Josiah's godly predecessors, had taken away long before this time; but other altars built by Manasseh or Amon, which because erected by Solomon's example, and for the same use, and in the same place, are called by his name; this brand being left by the Holy Ghost upon his name and memory, as a just punishment of that abominable practice, and a mean to deter others from the like. For Ashtoreth; of which and the rest See Poole on "1 Kings 11:5"; See Poole on "1 Kings 11:6"; See Poole on "1 Kings 11:7". The abomination, i.e. the idol, so called, because it was abominable, and made them abominable to God.
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2 Kings 23:13
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountd of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.