CHARIOTS OF THE SUN

(markebhoth ha-shemesh): These, together with "horses of the sun," are mentioned in 2 Kings 23:11. They are said to have stood in the temple, a gift of the kings of Judah. Josiah removed the horses from the precincts of the temple and burned the chariots. Among the Greeks, Helios was endowed with horses and chariots. Thus the course of the sun as he sped across the skies was understood by the mythological mind of antiquity. The Babylonian god Shamash (= Hebrew Shemesh) likewise had his chariot and horses as well as his charioteer. The cult of the sun and other heavenly bodies which was particularly in vogue during the latter days of the Judean monarchy (compare 2 Kings 23:5 Ezekiel 8:16; Deuteronomy 17:3 Jeremiah 8:2) seems to have constituted an element of the Canaanitish religion (compare the names of localities like Beth-shemesh and the like). The chariots of the sun are also referred to in Enoch 72:5, 37; 75:4, and Greek Apocrypha of Baruch 6.

Max L. Margolis

The Young Josiah and the Book of the Law
... He removed the horses at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, which the rulers
of Judah had given to the sun, and burned the chariots of the sun. ...
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The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of his Saints
... Who boweth himself in the grove of Ashtaroth, or who worshippeth the hosts of heaven,
and the chariots of the sun? They have gone! they have gone! ...
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How Amon Reigned Instead of Manasseh; and after Amon Reigned ...
... and the cities, out of a suspicion that somebody might have one idol or other in
private; nay, indeed, he took away the chariots [of the sun] that were set up ...
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Women who Saved a Nation
... But Barak pursued the chariots and the forces to Harosheth; and all the army of ... But
may those who love him be as the sun, Rising up in invincible splendor!". ...
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Travelers by Sea and Land 418. Maker of the Sea and Sky
... And in the clouds which come and go,. We see thy chariots everywhere. The sun that
lights the homeland dear. Spreads the new morning o'er the deep; ...
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How Solomon Grew Rich, and Fell Desperately in Love with Women and ...
... from those that were sent him, augmented the number of his chariots by above ... their
hair, so that their heads sparkled with the reflection of the sun-beams from ...
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Chapter i
... not kept.5. Look not upon me because I am dark-colored, because the sun hath tanned ...
compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.8. I ...
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Chapter vi.
... that cometh forth as the rising morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and
terrible ... Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Aminadib.11 ...
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Index of First Lines
... from the dead the King Immortal gives 101 [22]Light more glorious than the sun 103
[23 ... 171 [51]The saints of God who sufferings bore 173 [52]The chariots of the ...
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Book 9 Footnotes
... However, the general sense of both seems to be this: That there were certain chariots,
with their horses, dedicated to the idol of the sun, or to Moloch; which ...
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