And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
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Gill's Exposition
And all the houses also of the high places,.... The temples of the idols there, and the houses for the priests to dwell in:
that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to…
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
The prophet that came out of Samaria - See the note on Kg1 13:32.
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…
Cambridge Bible
Let him alone R.V. Let him be. The verb translated -let alone", in a later clause of the verse is not the same as this. Hence the change in the English.
that came out of Samaria i.e. The prophet of…