Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 23:7
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2 Kings23:7
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove .
Wherein some Males prostituted their Bodies to the Lusts of others: which abominable practise was both a punishment of Idolatry, Rom. 1. 23, 24, 27. and a part of Idolworship, this being done to the honour of some of their Idols, and by the appointment and instigation of those impure and diabolical spirits, which were worshipped in their Idols. See 1 King. 14. 24. and 15. 12. and 22. 46.
Or, curtains, either to draw before the Idol or Idols which were worshiped in the Grove, to preserve them from defilement, or to gain more reverence for them; or which were set up in the Grove, that the abominable filthiness last mentioned might be committed within them. Or, garments for the service of the Grove, for the Idols or the Priests belonging to them. Heb. houses, i. e. either little Chappels made of woven work, like those which were made of Silver, Act. 19. 24. within which there were some representations of their Grove-Idols: or rather, Tents made of those Curtains for the use abovementioned.
Or, for Asherah, an Idol so called, as was noted before.
Marginal references: Heb. houses.
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