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no more: implies that they had done so in Egypt to the goat image "Pan". Compare Jos_24:14. Eze_20:7; Eze_23:3, &c, and especially 2Ch_11:15.
offer = slay in sacrifice. Hebrew zabach. App-43.
devils. Hebrew. sa'ir. (Only here and 2Ch_11:15, "devils". In Isa_13:21; Isa_34:14 rendered "satyrs" = an imaginary demon: half-goat, half-man. Septuagint = demons:) from Hebrew root, meaning to shudder. From this "Pan" came the "satyrs", "fauns", and woodland gods of Greece and Rome, and also the "devil" of Christendom.