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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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Gods of Mockery and Mystery
Commentators note that the identities of gods like Nibhaz and Tartak are obscure. Some scholars suggest the biblical author may have intentionally altered the names of foreign deities as a form of ridicule. For example, Anammelech may be a deliberately distorted name for a goddess, created to sound silly and show contempt for idols.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Nibhaz and Tartak are either gods of whom we have no other record, or they are intentional corruptions of the Babylonian names Nebo and Tir. Tir wa…
19th Century
Anglican
Nibhaz and Tartak are unknown, but the forms have an Assyrio-Babylonian cast. (Compare Nimrod, Nergal with the fo…
Baptist
It would answer no practical purpose if I were to explain the meaning of the names of these various gods. Some of them had animal forms. Their wors…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak The former of which is represented by the Jews in the shape of a dog, deriving the …
The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men, like those brought from different countries to…