And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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Gill's Exposition
Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made. For the worship of the calf there:
both that altar, and the high place,…
A parenthesis giving the earlier reforms of Josiah. 2Ki 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 second…
Adam Clarke
Filled their places with the bones of men - This was allowed to be the utmost defilement to which any thing could be exposed.
We have here an account of such a reformation as we have not met with in all the history of the kings of Judah, such thorough riddance made of all the abominable things and such foundations laid of a…
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