Verse 2 Kings 23:7. The houses of the sodomites] We have already often met with these קדשים kedeshim or consecrated persons. The word implies all kinds of prostitutes, as well as abusers of themselves with mankind.
Wove hangings for the grove.] For Asherah; curtains or tent coverings for the places where the rites of the impure goddess were performed. 2 Kings 21:26.
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...
SODOMITES. male prostitutes. Suppression directed in Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18. See note on 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 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 DOWN THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES, THAT WERE BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHERE THE WOMEN WOVE HANGINGS FOR THE GROVE._ Brake down the houses of the sodomites, х_ HAQªDEESHIYM_ (H6945)] - o...
23:7 tents (e-21) Lit. 'houses.'...
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.;...
SODOMITES] The suppression of such is directed in Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18. HANGINGS] lit. 'houses,' i.e. tents which sheltered the Asherah (or emblem of Ashtoreth)....
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 HOUSES... BY THE HOUSE. — _The cabins of the Kedçshim_... _in the house_. The _Kedçshim_ were _males_, perhaps eunuchs, who prostituted themselves like women in honour of the Asherah. (See 1 Kings...
וַ יִּתֹּץ֙ אֶת ־בָּתֵּ֣י הַ קְּדֵשִׁ֔ים אֲשׁ
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,...
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...
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...
Effeminate. Hebrew, "consecrated" (Calmet) or "initiated" (Montanus) in the obscene mysteries of idols. See Deuteronomy xxiii. 18., and 3 Kings xv. 12., and 2 Machabees vi. 4. These men prostituted th...
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 DOWN THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES THAT WERE BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... Near the temple were apartments, in which men, the worshippers of idols, prostituted their bodies to each other; c...
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. Ver. 7. _The houses of the sodomites._] Abominable brothel houses. _...
_He brake down the houses of the sodomites_ The name sometimes given to the most infamous of all prostitutes, who exposed their bodies to be abused contrary to nature, in honour of those filthy deitie...
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 down the houses of the sodomites, the male prostitutes, THAT WERE BY THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHERE THE WOMEN, those who were associated with these lewd practices, WOVE HANGINGS FOR THE GRO...
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...
HANGINGS: _ Heb._ houses...
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...
THE HOUSES OF THE SODOMITES; wherein some males prostituted their bodies to the lusts of others; which abominable practice was both a punishment of idolatry, ROMANS 1:23,24,27, and a part of idol wors...
2 Kings 23:7 down H5422 (H8799) booths H1004 persons H6945 house H1004 LORD H3068 women H802 wove H707 ...
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...
GROVE (_ See Scofield) - (Deuteronomy 16:21). _...
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 23:4 The eastern slopes of the KIDRON Valley had been associated with idolatry since the time of Solomon (1 Kings 11:7). It was a convenient
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...
1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Chronicles 34:33;...
Sodomites — Sodomy was a part of idol — worship, being done to the honour of some of their idols, and by the appointment of those impure and diabolical spirits, which were worshipped in their idols. H...