The Holy Scriptures (Classic Reprint): With Commentary Micah - Softcover

Max Leopold Margolis

 
9781330221136: The Holy Scriptures (Classic Reprint): With Commentary Micah

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Canaanites and intermarried with them, they mingled themselves with the nations and learned their deeds (ps. Cvi. The Lord was worshipped after the same manner and with the same impure rites as the Baals of the native population. Under Ahab, of the house of Omri, the cult of the Phoenician Baal was introduced. The worship of the host of heaven was particularly in vogue in the time with which we are concerned. Child sacrifices were customary; of Ahaz it is reported (ii Kings xvi. 3) that he offered his own son by fire. The Temple at Jerusalem did not escape defilement. All over the land.

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