III. RIMMON, an Idol of the People of Damascus. Naaman the Syrian, makes his Confession to Elisha, that he had often been in the Temple of Rimmon with the 2 Kings v. 18.King of Damascus his Master, who lean’d upon his Arm, while he paid his Adorations to Rimmon. ‘Tis thought this God is no other than the Sun, and that the Name of Rimmon, or High, is given to him, because Grot. in iv. Reg. 5. Selden. de Diis Syris, Syntag. 2. c. 10.of his Elevation. Grotius takes it for Saturn, because this Planet is the most elevated of all. Selden will have it to be the God most-high, the God Elion of the Phenicians. Serrarius believes it to be the Goddess Venus. We know of no other God, in all Antiquity, but this, by the Name of Rimmon.
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