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2 Chronicles 25:14

2 Chronicles 25:14

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites,.... Instead of returning thanks to God for the victory obtained, and giving him the glory of it:that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods; what were the gods of the Edomites is nowhere said in Scripture; only Josephus speaks of the priests of Coze, which he says was a god of the Idumaeans:and bowed himself before them, and burned incense unto them; which was the greatest piece of sottishhess and stupidity imaginable, to worship the gods of a nation conquered by him; for since they could not save them, what help could he expect from them?

Antiqu. l. l5. c. 7. sect.

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