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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IMAGES. pillars, or statues.
MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ Used collectively. App-14....
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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...
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_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...
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23:14 columns, (a-7) Or 'statues.' see ch. 3.2....
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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.;...
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THE BONES OF MEN] i.e. to desecrate them, since dead bodies
communicated uncleanness: cp. Numbers 19:16....
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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...
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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...
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וְ שִׁבַּר֙ אֶת ־הַ מַּצֵּבֹ֔ות וַ
יִּכְרֹ֖ת
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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 i...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE COVENANT RENEWED...
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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...
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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...
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IMAGES:
_ Heb._ statues...
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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...
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i.e. of the idolatrous priests, which he caused to be taken out of
their graves, 2 KINGS 21:18....
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2 Kings 23:14 pieces H7665 (H8765) pillars H4676 down H3772 (H8799)
images H842 filled H4390 (H8762) places...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 23:1
JOSIAH'S RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. HIS REFORMS AND DEATH. REIGN OF
JEHOAHAZ. ACCESSION OF JEHO
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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...
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2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 23:16; Deuteronomy 7:25;...
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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...