2 Kgs 23:13

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the mount of corruption. that is, the mount of Olives.

Houbigant, deriving the Hebrew {mashchith} from {mashach,} "to anoint," reads "the Mount of Olives." Jarchi, following the Chaldee, also says this was the Mount of Olives; for this is the mount {hammishchah,} of unction: but because of the idolatrous purposes for which it was used, the Scripture changed the appellation to the mount of {hammashchith,} corruption.

Solomon.

1Kgs 11:7; Neh 13:26

Ashtoreth.

Judg 2:13; Judg 10:6; 1Sam 7:4; 1Sam 12:10; 1Kgs 11:5; 1Kgs 11:33

Chemosh.

Num 21:29; Judg 11:24; Jer 48:7; Jer 48:13; Jer 48:16

Milcom.

Zep 1:5

Malcham.