Statues is more proper than the Protestant "images," which would rather be torn. --- Dead is not expressed in the Hebrew or Septuagint, but must be understood. (Haydock) --- The pagans had the same idea of their impurity: incestat funere classem. (Virgil, \'c6neid vi.)
Verse 2 Kings 23:14. _FILLED THEIR PLACES WITH THE BONES OF MEN._] This was allowed to be the utmost defilement to which any thing could be exposed....
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah. 2 Kings 23:4 THE PRIESTS OF THE SECOND ORDER - This is a new expression; and probably refers to the ordinary priests, called here “priests of the s...
2. THE RESULTS OF THE REVIVAL AND THE DEATH OF JOSIAH CHAPTER 23:1-30 _ 1. The People hear the law (2 Kings 23:1; 2 Chronicles 34)_ 2. Josiah makes a covenant (2 Kings 23:3) 3. The great reformati...
2 KINGS 23:3. BY THE PILLAR. COVENANT: for the word pillar see 2 Kings 11:14 and 1 Kings 7:21. In the latter passage it is used for the two great brazen pillars set up by Solomon before the porch of t...
IMAGES. pillars, or statues. MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ Used collectively. App-14....
F. THE REFORMATION INTENSIFIED 23:4-23 The author deals with the reformation launched by Josiah geographically rather than chronologically. He discusses (1) the cleansing of the Temple (2 Kings 23:4-7...
_AND HE BRAKE IN PIECES THE IMAGES, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, AND FILLED THEIR PLACES WITH THE BONES OF MEN._ Filled their places with the bones of men. Every monument of idolatry in his dominions he...
23:14 columns, (a-7) Or 'statues.' see ch. 3.2....
THE BONES OF MEN] i.e. to desecrate them, since dead bodies communicated uncleanness: cp. Numbers 19:16....
RELIGIOUS REFORM. JOSIAH'S DEATH 2. The prophets] Jeremiah, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah lived about this time. READ IN THEIR EARS] cp. the similar proceeding related in Nehemiah 8:4.;...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 23 THE *COVENANT WITH THE *LORD V1 The king called together all the leaders of *Judah and Jerusalem. V2 He went to th...
THE IMAGES... THE GROVES. — _The pillars... the ash_ç_rahs_. These pillars and sacred trees may have been set up at the high places mentioned in the last verse; but the Hebrew construction does not _p...
וְ שִׁבַּר֙ אֶת ־הַ מַּצֵּבֹ֔ות וַ יִּכְרֹ֖ת
JOSIAH'S REFORMATION 2 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 23:1 "And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness." - #/RAPC 1Es 1:23 "From Zion shall go forth the Law, and the...
JOSIAH B.C. 639-608 2 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 23:1 Jos., "Ant.," X 4:1. "In outline dim and vast Their fearful shadows cast The giant forms of Empires, on their way To ruin: one by one They tower,...
DESTROYING INDUCEMENTS TO EVIL 2 Kings 23:5 Encouraged by the prophets Zephaniah, Urijah, and perhaps Jeremiah, Josiah set himself to the work of thorough reform, in which he endeavored to carry his...
In this chapter we have a graphic account of the reformation following the discovery of the book of the Law. It was carried out by the splendid enthusiasm and energy of Josiah, and it is interesting t...
When the king had finished reading the words of God's holy law, he proceeded with an holy zeal to bear testimony to God's truth, in the destruction of all that God's holy law had forbidden. And what a...
Well, then, in the next portion of our book (2 Kings 21:1-26) we see how truly a pious father may be followed by an impious son. Manasseh, young as he was, did not only begin to reign, but "did that w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Observe what grace raised up Hezekiah and Josiah, both of whom were born of fathers given up to idolatry, and followed by sons who were equally aba...
AND HE BRAKE IN PIECES THE IMAGES,.... Of Ashtoreth, Chemosh, and Milcom, in the above high places; which as these high places had been rebuilt by Manasseh or Amon, so new images of these deities were...
_And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men._ Ver. 14. _And he brake in pieces the images._] He made no spare of any of those idols and...
_And filled their places_ The places of the groves; _with the bones of men_ Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 Kings 23:18. As he carried the ashes of the im...
1 Iosiah causeth the booke to bee read in a solemne assembly. 3 He reneweth the Couenant of the LORD. 4 He destroyeth idolatry. 15 He burnt dead mens bones vpon the altar of Bethel, as was foreprop...
THE COVENANT RENEWED...
And he brake in pieces the images, the stone statues of the idols, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, the wooden pillars dedicated to Asherah-Astarte, AND FILLED THEIR PLACES WITH THE BONES OF MEN, thus defilin...
JOSIAH'S COVENANT AND JUDGMENT OF IDOLATRY (vv.1-20) Being king in Judah and therefore the representative of all the people, Josiah realised his responsibility of involving them all in hearing the W...
IMAGES: _ Heb._ statues...
4-14 What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel, where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where hi...
i.e. of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 KINGS 21:18....
2 Kings 23:14 pieces H7665 (H8765) pillars H4676 down H3772 (H8799) images H842 filled H4390 (H8762) places...
DETAILS OF JOSIAH'S REFORMS WHICH TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT HIS REIGN OVER MANY YEARS (2 KINGS 23:5). What is now described would have commenced well before Josiah's eighteenth year as the Temple was puri...
CONTENTS: Law read to the people. The king's covenant and reformations. CHARACTERS: God, Josiah, Hilkiah. Pharaoh-neche, Jehoahaz, Jehoikim, Eliakim. CONCLUSION: We should put ourselves heartily int...
2 Kings 23:29. _He slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him;_ as in 2 Kings 14:8. It would seem from this phrase that the two kings were engaged in single combat. This was an error for which Josiah f...
_And the King sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem._ GOOD AIMS AND BAD METHODS The verses I have selected record and illustrate good alms and bad methods. I. Go...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 23:14 HE BROKE IN PIECES THE PILLARS. Josiah destroys all the buildings associated with idol worship. ⇐...
THE DESTRUCTION OF IDOLATRY BY JOSIAH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 23:1. THE KING SENT AND GATHERED ALL THE ELDERS OF JUDAH—Not content to hide from coming ill under God’s promise of imm...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 23:1 JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHO
And the king stood by the pillar, and he made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and the testimonies and the statutes with their heart and with their soul...
2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 23:16; Deuteronomy 7:25;...
Men — Of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of their graves, 2 Kings 23:18. As he carried the ashes of the images to the graves, to mingle them with dead mens bones, so he carried...