Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 23:7

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

7. brake down the houses of the sodomites —not solid houses, but tents, called elsewhere [ :- ] Succoth-benoth, "the booths of the young women," who were devoted to the service of Asherah, for which they made embroidered hangings, and in which they gave themselves to unbridled revelry and lust. Or the hangings might be for Asherah itself, as it is a popular superstition in the East to hang pieces of cloth on trees. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-2ki-23-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/2ki-23-7

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological