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And them that worship; those among the people that adhered to this idolatry.
The host of heaven; the sun, moon, and stars, frequently in the Scripture called the host of heaven.
Upon the house-tops; openly, as the manner of those idolaters was, either because they thought those deities they imagined to dwell in the body of those stars better saw them, or were better pleased thus, or because these places were nearer heaven. On the flat roofs of their houses they were used to have their altars and worship.
That swear by the Lord, or, to the Lord, (as the Hebrew bears,)
and by Malcham; persons that mix idol worship and the worship of the true God; that devote themselves to God and Baal, or Malcham; called Milcom, and Molech, and Moloch, Amo_5:26; probably it was their chief idol, fancied to be king of gods and men.