the images R.V. the sun-images. Cp. 2 Chronicles 34:4; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9, The Heb. word ("ḥamman") is of uncertain meaning, and it is possible that no kind of image is meant, but rather the hearthon which the sacred fire was kept. The Heb. root means "to be hot." (W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, p. 489.)

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