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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 23:6 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 23:6 |
King James |
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| brought out the grove--that is, Asherah, the mystic tree, placed by Manasseh in the temple [Kg2 21:5; Ch2 33:5], removed by him after his conversion [Ch2 33:15], but replaced in the sanctuary by his wicked son Amon [Kg2 21:20-21]. Josiah had it taken to Kidron, burnt the wood, ground the metal about it to powder, and strewed the ashes "on the graves of the children of the people." The poor were buried in a common on part of the valley of Kidron. But reference is here made to the graves "of those that had sacrificed" (Ch2 34:4). |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
grove
(See Scofield) - (Deu 16:21). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The people - Of that people, those idolatrous people, as it is explained, Ch2 34:4. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
He brought out the grove - He brought out the idol Asherah. See at the end of Kg2 21:26 (note).
Upon the graves of the children of the people - I believe this; means the burial-place of the common people. |
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.