Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 14:5
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
5. the images ] R.V. the sun-images. Cp. 2Ch 34:4; Isa 17:8; Isa 27:9, The Heb. word (“amman”) is of uncertain meaning, and it is possible that no kind of image is meant, but rather the hearth on which the sacred fire was kept. The Heb. root means “to be hot.” (W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 489.)
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Images – See the margin, sun-images; and Lev 26:30 note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
5. he took away . . . the highplacesthat is, those devoted to idolatrous rites.
took away out of all thecities of Judah the high places and the imagesAll publicobjects and relics of idolatry in Jerusalem and other cities throughhis kingdom were destroyed; but those high places where God wasworshipped under the figure of an ox, as at Beth-el, were allowed toremain (1Ki 15:14); so far thereformation was incomplete.
2Ch14:6-8. HAVING PEACE,HE STRENGTHENSHIS KINGDOMWITH FORTS ANDARMIES.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images,…. Perhaps the high places in 2Ch 14:3 design only the high places and altars in Jerusalem, and near it; these in all the rest of the cities of the land; the “images were”, as the word signifies, “sun images”, either made in the form of the sun, or dedicated to it, or temples for it; [See comments on Le 26:30],
and the kingdom was quiet before him; he had no foreign enemy to molest him, and so took that opportunity to reform divine worship, and in that he met with no opposition from his people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ch 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Ver. 5. And the images. ] Heb., The sun images: Hammonim, the images of Jupiter Ammon, as some a will have it.
a A Lapide.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
images: Heb. sun-images, 2Ch 34:4, *marg.
Reciprocal: 1Ki 15:14 – the high places 2Ki 23:11 – the sun 2Ch 32:5 – he strengthened Isa 17:8 – images Isa 27:9 – images Eze 6:4 – images
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was {b} quiet before him.
(b) He shows that the rest and quietness of kingdoms stands in abolishing idolatry and advancing true religion.