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John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Ver. 16. He sent and took the bones.] That had been foreseen and foretold three hundred years at least before. 1Ki 13:2 Intervention ofttimes breaks no square in the divine decrees. Our blind eyes see nothing but that which toucheth their lids: the quick sight of God's prescience sees that as present which is a world afar off.

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See also 2 Kings 23:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 23:16. _AND AS JOSIAH TURNED HIMSELF_] This verse is much more _complete_ in the _Septuagint_, and in the _Hexaplar Syriac_ version at Paris. I shall give the whole, making a distinctio...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The grave of the prophet. This is evidently an addition to the original story. The altar, which in 2 Kings 23:15 had been destroyed, is supposed to be still standing. The man of God is, of course, the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SEPULCHRES. Hebrew, plural of _keber._ See note on 2 Kings 21:26. THE WORD. See 1 Kings 13:2. THE MAN OF GOD. See note on Deuteronomy 33:1. App-49. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND AS JOSIAH TURNED HIMSELF, HE SPIED THE SEPULCHRES THAT WERE THERE IN THE MOUNT, AND SENT, AND TOOK THE BONES OUT OF THE SEPULCHRES, AND BURNED THEM UPON THE ALTAR, AND POLLUTED IT, ACCORDING TO T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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.;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IN THE MOUNT] presumably some adjoining elevation. ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD] see 1 Kings 13:2....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TURNED HIMSELF. — So that he caught sight of the tombs on the hill-side opposite — not on the hill where the high place was. THE MAN OF GOD PROCLAIMED. — Some words appear to have fallen out of the He...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (16-18) These verses are supposed by Stähelin to be a fictitious addition of the compiler’s. Thenius does not go so far as this, but assumes that the proper sequel of 1 Kings 13:1, has been transferre...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֣פֶן יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ וַ יַּ֨רְא אֶת ־הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PROVING HIS WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS 2 Kings 23:15 Josiah carried his drastic reforms even to Samaria, thus fulfilling a prophecy uttered 350 years before. See 1 Kings 13:2. The old leaven having now been c...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Spoke. Septuagint subjoin some words, which seem to be lost in the original: ["when Jeroboam was standing, on the festival day, upon the altar. And turning, he lifted up his eyes towards the tomb of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat particularly interesting in the history to which these verses refer, and I would beg the Reader to mark it with me. If he will turn to the thirteenth chapter of the first book of the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AS JOSIAH TURNED HIMSELF,.... From the high place, and the altar at Bethel; for he not only gave orders for the destroying of idolatrous places and idols, but he saw them executed himself: HE SPI...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _As Josiah turned himself_ His care and zeal were so great that he would not trust his officers with these things, but would see them done with his own eyes. _He spied the sepulchres that were in the...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And as Josiah turned himself, looking about for further abominations, HE SPIED THE SEPULCHERS THAT WERE THERE IN THE MOUNT, the neighborhood having been used as a burial-place, AND SENT, AND TOOK THE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COVENANT RENEWED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-24 Josiah's zeal extended to the cities of Israel within his reach. He carefully preserved the sepulchre of that man of God, who came from Judah to foretell the throwing down of Jeroboam's altar....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS JOSIAH TURNED HIMSELF: Josiah's care and zeal was so great, that he would not trust his officers with these things, but would see them done with his own eyes. Which the man of God proclaimed three...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 23:16 Josiah H2977 turned H6437 (H8799) saw H7200 (H8799) tombs H6913 mountain H2022 sent H7971 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 23:15 ALTAR AT BETHEL. Josiah not only destroys but also defiles (vv. 2 Kings 23:8,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 23:1 JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHO

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 13:1; 1 Kings 13:2; 1 Kings 13:32; John 10:35; Matthew 24:35

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Himself — Josiah's care and zeal was so great, that he would not trust his officers with these things, but would see them done with his own eyes. These words — Three hundred years before it was done....

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