Verse 2 Kings 23:8. The gate of Joshua] The place where he, as governor of the city, heard and decided causes. Near this we find there were public altars, where sometimes the true God, at other times false gods, were honoured.
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...
THE HIGH PLACES. Seemingly (from 2 Kings 23:9) some were used for the worship of Jehovah. See notes on 2 Kings 18:20. 2Ki 19:10, 2 Kings 19:14. GEBA. NOW _Jeba_ ...
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 BROUGHT ALL THE PRIESTS OUT OF THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD BURNED INCENSE, FROM GEBA TO BEERSHEBA, AND BRAKE DOWN THE HIGH PLACES OF THE GATES THAT W...
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.;...
DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES] That some of these were dedicated to the worship of the Lord appears from the following v., which implies that the priests who served them were priests of the Lord. The destru...
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...
AND HE BROUGHT ALL THE PRIESTS... — Josiah caused all the priests of the local sanctuaries of Jehovah to migrate to Jerusalem, and polluted the high places to which they had been attached, in order to...
וַ יָּבֵ֤א אֶת ־כָּל ־הַ כֹּֽהֲנִים֙ מֵ
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...
Bersabee; to which the Israelites went in pilgrimages, Amos v. 5. This place was situated at the southern extremity of the dominions of Juda, as Gabaa was at the northern. The priests being unable to...
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 BROUGHT ALL THE PRIESTS OUT OF THE CITIES OF JUDAH,.... Who were of the sons of Aaron, and had served in the high places there: AND DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD BURNT INCENSE;...
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that [w...
_He brought all the priests_ Belonging to the high places following, whether such as worshipped idols, or such as worshipped God in those forbidden places. _Out of the cities of Judah_ That they might...
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 brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, where they wore engaged in local worship, AND DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD BURNED INCENSE, FROM GEBA, on the northern bounda...
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...
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...
ALL THE PRIESTS, to wit, belonging to the high places there following, whether such as worshipped idols, or rather, such as worshipped God in those forbidden places, DEUTERONOMY 12:11, as may be gathe...
2 Kings 23:8 brought H935 (H8686) priests H3548 cities H5892 Judah H3063 defiled H2930 (H8762) places H1116 priests...
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 23:4 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
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 23:8 DEFILED THE HIGH PLACES WHERE THE PRIESTS HAD MADE OFFERINGS. These were local places of worship in various cities (see note on 1 Kings 3:2)....
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 Chronicles 6:60; 1 Kings 15:22; 1 Kings 19:3; Genesis 21:31;...
Priests — Belonging to the high — places following, whether such as worshipped idols; or such as worshipped God in those forbidden places. Defiled — By burning dead mens bones upon them, or by putting...