Horses — Such the eastern nations used to consecrate to the sun, to signify the swiftness of his motion. The sun — Either, to be sacrificed to the sun: or, to draw those chariots in which the kings, or some other in their stead, went forth every morning to worship the rising sun: for both these were the customs of the Armenians and Persians, as Xenophon testifies. Entering in — By the gate of the outward court of the temple. Chamberlain — Or, officer, to whom the care of these horses were committed. Suburbs — Of the temple: in certain outward buildings belonging to the temple. Chariots — Which were made for the worship of the sun.
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2 Kings 23:11
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain,b which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.