And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Ver. 31. Made Nibhaz and Tartak.] A dog and an ass, as 2 Kings 17:30. So the Africans worshipped a dog; the Persians, a cock; the Mendesians, a goat, &c. The people of the East Indies, in the isle Ceylon, having an ape's tooth got from them which they had consecrated, offered an incredible mass of treasure to recover it.