And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
And the king commanded all the people,.... Not at Jerusalem only, but throughout the whole kingdom: saying:
keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant;…
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
Slew all the priests - The lives of these, as corrupters of the people, were forfeited to the law.
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
and burnt men's bones upon them To the heathen, as well as to the Jew, this would be a pollution that would make the place for ever unfit for worship.
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