2 Kgs 17:30

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Babylon.

2Kgs 17:24

Succoth benoth.{Succoth benoth,} literally "the tents of the daughters."

Cuth.

Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (Ge 2:13,) the ancient country of the Scythians, where we meet with the Quitians, Co�hians, or Co�� and Cytheans, and the cities of Cotatis, Cetemane, Cythanum, Cyta, Cethena, etc. Nergal.

Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock. Ashima.

Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat.