He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
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Gill's Exposition
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel,.... To be his protector and defender, and had no dependence on idols as an arm of flesh; the Targum is, he trusted in the Word of the Lord God; not in Nehushtan,…
Barnes' Notes
He removed the high places - This religious reformation was effected in a violent and tumultuous manner (marginal reference). The “high places,” though forbidden in the Law (Deu 12:2-4, Deu 12:11-14;…
Adam Clarke
Brake in pieces the brazen serpent - The history of this may be seen in Num 21:8 (note), Num 21:9 (note).
We find that this brazen serpent had become an object of idolatry, and no doubt was supposed…
We have here a general account of the reign of Hezekiah. It appears, by comparing his age with his father's, that he was born when his father was about eleven or twelve years old, divine Providence so…
Cambridge Bible
brake the images[R.V. pillars] and cut down the groves R.V. the Asherah. On the -pillars" see note on 2Ki 3:2, and on the -Asherah", which was probably the wooden image of a goddess so called, see on…
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